The last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and…
Six in 10 people in Nigeria’s Edo state live on or under the poverty line, and a poor education system has been a stumbling block to growth, development and prosperity. Now, all this is changing. Read more in Weforum These…
Education and training is certainly one way to ensure employee success. Broader than that, however, is the need for companies to realize why they need to invest more in employees. “You have to send strong signals,you have to retool the…
The launch of MIND Kit is opportune in an environment when robotics is garnering greater visibility of its future impact to society, but in reality the opportunities to learn about or even develop complex robotics doesn’t exist outside of the…
Its president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, said at Davos 2019: “Seventy years ago, Costa Rica did away with the army. This allows for many things. Eight percent of our GDP is invested in education because we don’t have to spend on…
If women had the same tools as male farmers, Project Drawdown calculates that they could grow 20-30% more food on the same amount of land. That translates into 2 billion tons of emissions that could be avoided between now and…
.In the decade between 2007 and 2017, the percentage of adults who had a level of education below upper secondary (usually from age 14) fell from 20% to 15%. The most highly educated country in the report was South Korea,…
Finland has no standardized tests. Their only exception is something called the National Matriculation Exam, which is a voluntary test for students at the end of an upper-secondary school (equivalent to an American high school). Read more in bigthink 10…
A new report published by Dell Technologies have also hinted that the pace of change is so fast that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not even been invented yet.Furthermore, there is a gradual shift in…
A good way to overcome uneasiness, anxiety or fear is simply be learning more about whatever seems to be the issue. AI is still in its infancy, so there may be many jobs, business and investment opportunities in the near…
