“The last exam board in England offering art history A-level will drop the subject from 2018, marking the latest in a cull of perceived “soft” subjects following the curriculum changes begun by the former education secretary Michael Gove” ─ Read …
Hindustan Times: Half of world’s disabled children are kept out of schools: Report
At least half of the world’s 65 million school-age children with disabilities are kept out of the classroom because little to no money is budgeted for their needs, a disability rights groups said in a report on Monday. ─ Read …
Math teacher training in South Africa | IRIS Connect
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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 …