The California State University, Northridge Department of Information Technology hosted its sixth annual Technology Fair on July 27 in the University Student Union Grand Salon, to inform faculty and staff about the latest trends in higher education technology. “The CSUN Technology Fair has been held annually since 2011,” said Hilary Baker, ... Read More »
Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq:ABTL), a leading provider of online automotive services connecting consumers with dealers, today announced it has launched the fifth installment of the Autobytel Dealer Insight Series. The video education series is a quarterly training program designed to help dealers increase sales and improve the car buying experience for ... Read More »
TASMANIAN students are closing the education gap as shown in the latest NAPLAN results, the Australian Education Union says. Preliminary results from the 2016 National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy showed the writing scores of Year 7 and Year 9 students showed a “significant” decline nationally since 2011 and ... Read More »
This is Naplan week. No, not the tests – that was a few months back. August is when the results come out to schools and parents. It isn’t as exciting as the annual festival of the year 12 results, but it is developing a life of its own. We are ... Read More »
The Latest on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 4:35 p.m. The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will be the top seeds in women’s doubles at the Rio Olympics. In men’s doubles, three-time major winner Andy Murray and his brother Jamie are seeded second, behind the ... Read More »
The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to plotters of last week’s attempted coup, firing tens of thousands of public employees across the country. The dismissals touched every aspect of government life. Turkish media, in rapid-fire reports, said the Ministry of Education ... Read More »
University tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started courses. Universities minister Jo Johnson has published a statement setting out plans to link higher fees to better teaching. The fees will increase by inflation in ... Read More »
Edu-tech start-up CollegeDunia was announced the 3rd best education portal of India recently. While 1st and 2nd positions are held by Siksha and Careers360, CollegeDunia a two year old portal has left many of the renowned websites behind. As per the Alexa statistics, the portal now stands at 627th position ... Read More »
In most classrooms, it’s not a good sign when students’ eyes flick to the clock. It means they’re distracted and waiting to get out. In Nicole Naditz’s 12th-grade class in Sacramento, California, the opposite is true; students desperately eyeball the clock, wishing for more time. Naditz’s trick? She’s incorporated a ... Read More »
Education, agriculture and healthcare got the maximum focus, while several items including candles, kerosene stoves, packaged drinking water, cinema tickets, LED bulbs and tubes, citronella oil and feeding bottles would become cheaper, as theBJP-led government in Assam tabled its first budget, of Rs 78,253.36 crore, that showed an overall deficit ... Read More »
BHUBANESWAR: A wind of change is sweeping through the tribal communities where a group of NRIs and their Indian volunteer friends have been trying to improve the state of primary education through a slew of programmes under India Literacy Project (ILP). ILP has been working in eight States of the ... Read More »
The government will come up with an action plan for revitalising the public education sector with a mission to bring back the State’s rich culture of secular education, Minister for Education C. Raveendranath has said. He was speaking after inaugurating a newly constructed building of the Karaparamba Government High School ... Read More »
