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The government has stated that it will be making another 10,000 higher education places available for this year. They have also said they are attempting to reduce the time it takes for the average student to pay back the loans for their university courses.

The costs for the new courses such as technology, science and maths will be paid for in taxes but should have no effect on public finances with the funds coming from pre-existing budgets. Universities have been informed they will have to manage their own admissions and that they can offer higher quality places for students using their own system

Due to the economy and the recession students leaving school are finding getting into work difficult, and the government has been working hard to avoid long term unemployment, putting more youngsters through university is one way to get students qualified and busy till the recession passes.

In the UK there are more than 2 million students in higher education. The universities have supported the government act of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) but are concerned that pushing students to these areas may have an impact on other areas such as social sciences and arts.

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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 used to expand other technologies such as mobile phones in addition to the obvious Internet technology.

The higher education academy is there to provide the best learning experience for students, they analyze the technology they use to help identify further development in the future. An audience of 170 people have now learnt how Welsh institutions use technology to aid the students learning experience, and to help inspire.

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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 people more are applying for university this year. The push for more university places will be pushed through Parliament quickly as A levels results are due shortly.

A European Commission report has shown that over a fifth of all UK students have moved into higher education, this is more than the EU average of 19%. The UK is also spending more on education than the rest of Europe at 5.5% compared to an average of Europe of 5%.

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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 managed by a company in the US remotely.

Cloud computing has been built up as the next big thing in the computing world. It allows people to do computing without much hardware. The laptops will allow teachers in Ethiopia to keep track of students records and transfer data. All this without having expensive hardware, what a great idea!

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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 and data, and have some of the worlds best known scientists.

NASA does already provided interested students access to needed educational resources including thousands of images all available free of charge to the public. This is a great funding opportunity for Nasa and gives students in education the chance to enhance their science, engineering and mathematics skills which are all related to NASA missions and careers.

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With today’s technology learning is longer confined to the traditional children’s classrooms. Nowadays there are laptops, PDAs and other modern digital equipment which is helping to bring the world into the classroom.

Modern technology is making a great different in education and is allowing children to learn more quicker. Recently the US education department did an online study and found that is an effective way to educate in the modern era.

In fact nearly 98% of classrooms in Oklahoma U.S.A use computers in the national curriculum, and their is no sign of the computer generation slowing down!

Due to the internet we now live in a more global society with the world available from every PC. Because of this it is essential that the necessary digital tools are used in the classrooms. Lets just hope the kids don’t learn too fast or they will lose the rest of us!

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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 that half of the people they studied were connected electronically to the world for more than 5 hours a day. This number is set to rise especially in the summer where students have more free time

Education bosses will need to develop new strategies to get young people fit, and out of their bedrooms. However even when the youth of today go outside they will be on their mobile device like the Ipod or Iphone, this may stop young people getting into art or nature as they simply will be connected to the world the whole time!

Young people today will have been brought up with technology, and will spend countless hours in cyberspace. But with this has an important aspect of development been lost, I think perhaps this is true

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