“The merger of three of the emirate’s top higher education institutes will help strengthen the country’s output of quality research and produce higher-calibre graduates,” said Minister of Education Hussain Al Hammadi. ─ Read item ─
Daily Sabah: Turkish education system more student-driven with Montessori method
“the Montessori education system nurtures each child’s intrinsic desire to learn and encourages them to discover their own skills through self-directed activities. In Turkey, more schools are adopting the Montessori method in their syllabus” ─ Read item ─
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Student debts wipe out most graduate pay premiums – report – BBC News
“Politicians should stop using a “carrot of higher graduate earnings” to justify raising student fees or freezing repayment thresholds, say campaigners.” ─ Read item ─
MIT Technology Review: Mobile Phone Data Reveals Literacy Rates in Developing Countries
A machine learning algorithm has learned to tell whether individuals can read or write by analyzing their mobile phone records.” ─ Read item ─
The Washington Post: The weird story of the arrest of a Canadian education researcher in Uganda
A Canadian doctoral student who was in Uganda to research the operations of a for-profit outfit called Bridge International Academies (BIA) was arrested after complaints about his work by the company. ─ Read item ─
Telegraph: Schools as businesses – when education doesn’t always come first
The drive towards the marketisation of education, however, raises the dilemma long faced by independent schools, as to whether they are first and foremost purveyors of education, or businesses that need to operate with an eye to the marketplace in order …