Getting an online degree
Obtaining a degree online is becoming very popular these days for several reasons, this is because they offer the student the opportunity to stay a work and build on their careers and at the same time gain that all important degree.
However, with so much choice to the potential student what are the best places to [...]
Open source for education departments
There have been some serious problems for the UK government over their choices for software partners. There are many stories around where various providers of these services have been given huge contracts only for them to run over budget or in some case not deliver.
Another problem came from the use of Microsoft in the countries [...]
Kids to test smart drugs
School children could be used a guinea pigs for new brain enhancing drug, these drugs are known as Cognition Enhancers and are believed to improve the performance of the brain, like short term memory and increase the speed of the thought too.
The government have already been advised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, they recommended [...]
Distance learning can be ok
Once you have started work, there always comes a time when you are going to sit back and think why didn’t I go on to university? However, what makes it worse is that now you are working and paying your way, in order to go back to college is going to mean a complete lifestyle [...]
August 14, 2008How to get an online degree
Getting an online degree is a great way of getting a worthwhile qualification, but at the same time carrying on working too. This has the benefit of being able to build a career and earn some cash, instead of building up a huge debt and having to start off a career from scratch.
The procedure of [...]
What to look for in distance learning
The internet and distance learning are one of those areas that really go together, before the internet distance learning would have been done through the post, which takes time and may have ended up being a bit boring for some students.
But now the growth in this sector is enormous which means students should therefore [...]
What is good about online learning?
There are many things, which can be good to do in your own time, and education is definitely one of those things, this is because you are able to work at your own pace at a time that suits you. This can give the student a distinct advantage over everyone else, as there are no [...]
July 28, 2008Academics fooled by spam
For most of us, spam or fraudulent emails are normally something to do with helping out someone in Africa who has several million dollars to transfer, Viagra, or fake banks and in general, these mostly end up in the trash.
However, there is a growing new wave of emails, which are targeting the academics of [...]
Pupils used to heat school
New school is so eco friendly that the heat generated by the bodies of the pupils and staff will be enough to keep the school heated.
Work has just started on the replacement for the Acharacle Primary School in Ardnamurchan, on the west coast of Scotland, which had seen better days, so it was decided to [...]
Schools closed by strike action
Throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland thousands of council workers have been on strike causing chaos to many of the council services including schools.
Members of the Unison and Unite unions are expecting around six hundred thousand workers to part in a series of planned strikes which is over pay and will affect non teaching staff [...]
Want school dinners? Get finger printed
Pupils at a school in Huddersfield are being fingerprinted so that they can pay for the school dinners without having to carrying around cash.
The All Saints Catholic College in Bradley Bar is the latest school to introduce this biometric scheme, the pupils have their fingers scanned into a computer; this will then act as a [...]
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 [...]
Military families should first choice on schools
The head of the British armed forces, is suggesting that the families of serving military personnel should be getting preferential treatment when it comes to public services such as education.
The Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Jock Stirrup has said these families should be getting a bit more than the average family, simply because of [...]
Online learning can be good
In these days of green thinking it could be said that deciding to which method of education is greener is up for debate.
Going to conventional school means having a large building, with heating, power usage and lighting, and all that travelling by bus and car. Or by studying online, where none of the above applies [...]
School caretaker sues for £50,000
While doing a job you would expect to be getting on the job training as when needed, this could apply to many tools and even new jobs that have been added to the current work load. This is why when things go wrong there is always going to be trouble.
Anthony Gower-Smith, 73 from Hampshire was [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Technology could render schools obsolete
In the near future it has been predicted by the head of one of the UK’s top private schools that children will be learning by a type of direct input. This will of course mean that schools as we know them today will become obsolete.
How this will develop is not yet known, but you can [...]
Bad behaviour could mean learning a trade
The government desperate to put a false stop behind the so called “Yob” culture that has gripped the nation’s schools and streets have come up with a sure way of removing the problem from the schools.
The plans are to create what have been named as “Studio Schools” where it is planned that these unruly [...]
Office 2007 no good for schools
Once again the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) have complained to the European Commission again with regards to Microsoft and their products.
In response it would seem that the European commission are going to launch a wider investigation, even though they have only recently finished an anti trust investigation on the company.
The problems surround [...]