A recent meta-analysis found that undergraduates’ IQs have steadily fallen from roughly 119 in 1939 to a mean of 102 in 2022, just slightly above the population average of 100. The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of…
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This graphic from The Hinrich Foundation provides visual context to the global education gap by ranking 29 major economies by two metrics: 1) average years of schooling, and 2) gross enrollment ratio. Read more in Visual Capitalist Visualizing the Global…
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Here’s why education systems need to start taking a ‘skills-first’ approach By The Lego Foundation
7 April 2023Views: 202Historically, education systems around the world have emphasized acquiring knowledge and information and de-prioritized interpersonal skills. This needs to change. Read more in weforum Here’s why education systems need to start taking a ‘skills-first’ approach By The Lego Foundation was…
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Revolutionizing Education: The Power of ChatGPT By Dr Mark van Rijmenam
27 February 2023Views: 392The education industry needs to embrace the rise of AI and adapt to the new reality. The technology will evolve faster than teachers, professors, and school management can anticipate, and students will always find new ways to incorporate the latest…
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Here’s an alternate learning model for the future By Sanjay E. Sarma
16 December 2022Views: 269The disconnect between higher education and employability is growing, along with the soaring costs of tuition fees and student debt.Employers are relying less on college education and many are exploring alternate educational pathways to employment. Read more in weforum Here’s…
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Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind By Yuval Noah Harari
4 May 2020Views: 2,147The 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…
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These Nigerian schools are teaching more in a term than they used to in a year By Adesuwa Ifedi
23 July 2019Views: 775Six 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…
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Workplace education is not just about “competitive advantage” By Cale Guthrie Weissman
16 May 2019Views: 910Education 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…
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Meet the ultimate robotics kit for makers By Greg Nichols
20 April 2019Views: 909The 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…
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Costa Rica is one of the world’s happiest countries. Here’s what it does differently By Josephine Moulds
7 March 2019Views: 1,101Its 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…