education

The report ranks 145 countries on their ability to close the gender gap in four fundamental areas: Read more in Agenda WeForum 

Part of the school’s objective,  will be to help students understand systemic issues that shape individual health and lead the conversation about how to reinvent society’s approach to health care and wellness. Read more in Fast Company  Reinventing Medical School…

Education must shift towards helping children to apply knowledge wisely and to convert vast volumes of data into information. Teachers need to move from filling children’s heads with data towards facilitators of informed thinking and doing.  Read more in Virgin …

As we look forward into the future, to understand the changes we have ahead of us, we need to think much further back. In effect, we have to double our rear vision. With this in mind, to see 10 years ahead,…

When the city of Alexandria, Minnesota, asked community members what they wanted in their new high school to be like, they replied, “like the Google campus learn more in fastcodesign  How To Design The Googleplex Of Schools By John Brownlee…

We might be sending kids to school in self-driving cars by 2020, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be taught by teacher-avatars and given tests via drone. learn more in fastcompany 5 Ways Education Will Change By 2020 In the next…

We are seeing a noticeable increase in IT hiring and we expect this to continue. Because of increasing competition, we also are seeing pressure to raise salaries and other benefits learn more in cio  6 IT Workforce Predictions for 2015…

A survey from Yale and George Mason universities found that just more than half of Americans – 55 percent – said they were at least somewhat worried about global warming, while only 11 percent said they were very worried about…

Drones can be low flying, high flying, tiny or huge, silent or noisy, super-visible or totally invisible, your best friend or your worst enemy. Flying drones can also roll along the ground, stick to the side of a building, float in…

Finland’s students are regularly top the charts on global education metrics despite a lack of homework and more away-from-the-desk time during the school day. No homework is a pretty drastic measure in most people’s minds, so how does it work?…