With all sectors affected by the recession, the universities have been unable escape it. There are now more people in applying for places in higher education than ever before, but rather than the government being able to celebrate this achievement many students this year may find that there are no places available for them.
Universities have [...]
Truancy is rising in schools all across the country and now they are having to come up with new ways to combat the problem. Schools in Derbyshire are hoping that a new text alert system will help. One School in Chesterfield already uses the system to alert parents when their child is absent from School.
It [...]
In America Colleges and Universities are offering online courses in every subject you can think off, from some of their oldest professors
In fact Youtube have created an educational hub where universities and colleges can add their online learning material in video format!
Many Universities have chosen to upload education videos to Youtube including members of [...]
Internet Technology has improved greatly over the past few years making teleconferencing a more viable option for the modern business. Teleconferencing nowadays can display voice and video and are now often used in meetings, and have been used to secure countless large business deals
The same technology nowadays is even now being used in education, some [...]
Teachers in the UK will benefit from £5.6 million from the government to improve technology skills. The money will be used to increase technology skills from primary schools to secondary schools.
It is important that the young students in the UK keep up to date with the latest technology developments, so they don’t get left behind. [...]
Learning in the 21at century requires the use of modern technology, most students nowadays will use a combination of their laptops, phones, ipods and the universities network to complete their studies.
The universities in Wales have now had a year with £1 million pound grants each to meet learning objectives through technology. This money has been [...]
Gordon Brown has stated that there will be more university places next year. Gordon brown has made the startling promise but has not put a figure on how much it is going to cost.
Applications for university are 10% higher than last year which may leave thousands of wannabe students disappointed. In fact around 50,000 [...]
Ethipoia one of the third world countries is rolling out a cool 250,000 laptops to its schoolteachers, the computers will all be running Azure a platform by Microsoft
The laptops will help improve education around the whole of Ethiopia, and will be using the cloud computing network from Microsoft. The software on the laptop will be [...]
Nasa recently announced that they will be funding education by putting money into several US science centers and museums. In fact there will be over $6 million available.
The proposal will use NASA resources to help further enhance the existing education programs in the museums. NASA is unique in the fact that they have excellent facilities [...]
The new digital decade has changed the way that teenagers read and listed to music, most teenagers these days won’t play games in the street or go to the library. They spend more than 57% of their time on watching TV, going on the internet or playing on their Playstation
A survey in New Jersey stated [...]
