DES MOINES — Agricultural education returns to the 2016 Iowa State Fair with activities on swine, dairy cattle, turkeys and more. “Nothing Compares” to My State Fair August 11-21. Back for another year, fairgoers can stop by the John Deere Agriculture Building to experience “It takes an Iowan,” an interactive ... Read More »
Many experts believed that education technology (EdTech) has the ability to transform the field of education. That’s why, many tech companies have been recently investing more on EdTech platforms including Apple, Google and Amazon. Despite the rise of education technology, RAND Corp. policy researcher Julia Kaufman revealed in an open ... Read More »
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today laid emphasis on the role of teachers and said education policies may be formulated and implemented after much discussion but it is they who put them into practice. “There is a lot of discussion about education these days. This reform or that reform, this system ... Read More »
The Obama administration this morning released its latest proposal on how colleges that offer distance education programs to students in other states should be regulated. The rule requires distance education providers to follow state laws governing how they become authorized to offer courses and programs to students in states other ... Read More »
Career and technical education (CTE) aka vocational education has been one of the alternative ways for high school graduates who are not interested in pursuing a college degree. Unfortunately, the program has recently been plagued with criticisms, from being a “second rate” education to the widespread gender inequality in CTE ... Read More »
A recent study found that three out of four teachers are using open educational resources these days, which is thanks in part to both easy access and widespread encouragement. Last year, the Department of Education began its #GoOpen campaign, a campaign that encourages schools to try out OERs and provides ... Read More »
In this special episode of Cover Story, we take a look at the college education options in India & abroad. Getting admission to Colleges is no easy task these days, even after scoring a decent percentage. With 99% cut-off, what are the options available for students? For students is it ... Read More »
With the cost of higher education still a hot-button issue, it pays to reconsider options for obtaining a college degree. Getting the full “college experience,” living in a dorm, strolling an ivy-covered campus, and being in a fraternity or sorority is still going to cost you. Just ask the millions ... Read More »
BESIDES HIS NGO, Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), televangelist Zakir Naik also set up two real estate companies and a video and television software production house in Mumbai in the period between 2005 to 2008, according to records available with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). The RoC records show that Zakir ... Read More »
Hamilton’s giddy growth rate has forced the building of another new school in the burgeoning northeast of the city. The new school will chalk up a tally of four new schools built in four years when the latest one opens in 2019. The most recent announcement was a new primary school in ... Read More »
Don’t mess around with the youth and education” in order to avoid a “perilous” future, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today warned the Centre and attacked it for “reducing” the Central education budget which he said would “ruin” the country. Running through the initiates taken by the AAP government during ... Read More »
The Latest on Illinois lawmakers’ fight over a stopgap budget and school funding plan for the new fiscal year that begins Friday (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Illinois colleges and universities would receive about $1 billion under stopgap budget plans filed by state Senate Democrats and Republican leaders. The money ... Read More »
