Changes for foreign students
The UK has always been an attractive option for foreign student to come over and earn a degree or study for some other qualification. However, in recent years the system that operated has been abused by some organisations that used it simply to allow foreigners to enter the country and then disappear.
In order [...]
Billionaire Dropouts
Probably one of the main things about people, who have dropped out of school, is the fact that you would not expect them to have gone on and built a mega business empire, but surprisingly some of the most popular household names have done just that.
In a recent survey of over a thousand billionaires around [...]
200,000 kids spanked in US schools
There is a theory that beating kids in the home or at school just teaches them violence, which is why we look upon it in the way that we do now. However, this does not look like to be same in the US where it has been estimated that around 200,000 kids were disciplined at [...]
August 1, 2008Prison for taking photos of unsafe schools
It may because of the media invasion of china, but there are quite few stories coming out from the places that rarely ever get visited by outsiders.
Like this teacher who following the terrible earthquake in the Sichuan region, which killed over 70,000 and devastated whole areas. He has been arrested for and been sentenced to [...]
Online resources for learning a language
The world is a much smaller place than a few years ago, not that it is shrinking in a physical sense, but by travel and more recently with the growth in broadband. So now would be a great time to learn a language.
There are many advantages with having a foreign language under your belt, it [...]
Free online language courses
Learning a language is something that most people think about but never really get around to doing, this is for several reasons. The time it takes to actually get to a level that is reasonable, the cost and the embarrassment of sitting there in a room with others.
The solution is to try a different approach, [...]
Smoking and education a strange mix
When colleges and universities accept money from tobacco companies they are thought of as signing a deal with the devil, but when this money is given as a research grant or to pay for some research to be done, then it all takes a different stance.
Like Virginia Commonwealth University they had signed an arrangement with [...]
What not to study at university
With university fees costing the average student around £15,000 there is case to answer that you should be making it worth your while and to ensure that these debts can be paid as easily and quickly as possible.
So with so many courses available which ones are not going to be worth taking, and yet would [...]
Preparing to study abroad
There has never been an opportunity like there is today for a student to study in a foreign country this comes about because of the international standards are education are very similar now, but for a student who intends to study in a foreign country particularly with in Europe there are other problems.
First of all [...]
Sometimes anyone can get a degree
Studying for a degree is the hardest work that students do, but is it getting any easier. After all there is talk that all other exams are getting easier rather than more being more difficult. But when it gets to degree standards you would have thought that the levels required should remain constant.
So if this [...]
Hawking in search of new Einstein
Having spent the majority of his life trying to explain how the universe started, Professor Stephen Hawking has now started a new search, this time it is much closer to earth. For, he is launching a new project to find the African versions of Einstein, Bill Gates, and Sergey Brins and Larry Pages (Google).
This has [...]
The school of 41 languages
In most schools these many of the pupils struggle to keep up with French lessons as they always seem to be so hard and to be fair, quite embarrassing most of the time especially when you have to speak out aloud in front of the class.
But imagine being in a school where there are pupils [...]
An education on Second Life
People use Second Life for many different things, meeting people, making money and now you can get yourself a decent education from the many places of learning that are scattered around the SL site.
Not all of these sites offer a traditional education as in learning a specific skill or gaining a qualification, but rather a [...]
Online education boom
The days have long gone when every child has to go to school to get an education, the world has changed so much and with communications being so much better, home schooling has become a reality and for some children the opportunity to learn at home is ideal, it suits their situations.
Online learning as an [...]
Primary school philosophers
You may feel that being five years old would mean that the subject of philosophy would be a little out of their league. But according to Gallions primary school in east London, the subject is being well received and in fact the school has had to produce their own teaching kits for other schools who [...]
February 11, 2008Expensive universities make you think
Living in the UK is expensive, and yet when it comes to education we seem to think that we are getting a raw deal, but when we a take a look at some the most expensive universities in the world then the will make people think again.
The most expensive universities in the world are:
George Washington [...]
Websites at school, lead to trouble
Many web based businesses have been started by students at school or college which is how they have developed so quickly and the entrepreneurs have become very rich at a young age.
But it seems that some schools are getting wise to this and are trying to put a stop to this and it is not [...]
Bogus university found by BBC
A bogus university set up in Ireland named the Irish International University (IIU) has been the subject of a BBC investigation. The university has been able to continue recruiting students, giving them a sub standard education and finally awarding degrees that are virtually worthless.
However there are over five thousand registered students worldwide all of which [...]
Boy glues himself to bed
Going back to school after the long winter break when its cold and damp has always been a nightmare for many children, but never the less they still get going and after a couple of days are back into the old routine.
But for one child in Mexico, there is no bad weather, but he still [...]
Prank shuts down schools IT system
It just shows you how things can move very quickly on the net, when a bored student at the Big Spring High School in Pennsylvania, US, posted a hoax on a certain site named uploadgeek, innocent enough you may think, but this hoax got so many peoples backs up that what happened next no one [...]