Students see’s African orphanage and buys it
It is very popular for students to take some time out before or after their they go to university, this would normally mean them working with a charitable organisation and travelling to a third world country and help out by working in some manner to make the lives of the people better.
However, it is not [...]
Malaria campaign after teacher’s death
Harry Yirrell worked as a teaching assistant in a small fishing village in Ghana, this was a volunteer position, which shows the type of person he was. What ’s more, instead of taking his malaria medication he chose to hand it over to the people of the village, thinking that they needed it more than [...]
April 9, 2009Education abroad
Just when is the best to move abroad when you have a young family? There are plenty of options available for parents when it comes to education, but often this may end up coming down to cost, which is a difficult subject these days.
The general opinion is the earlier the better, but not everyone can [...]
Students still flocking to the UK
Despite the credit crunch and the cost of living in the UK, there is still a booming market in students coming to the UK for their university education from countries all around the world.
This is because a UK qualification carries a lot of weight when it is time to start work and of course the [...]
Studying in a foreign eco village
For many students taking some time out or even a whole year off is nothing unusual these days, but for students this is not really a practical approach, but studying abroad could be the answer for these students.
This is a fairly new idea, which can help the student to broaden their knowledge as well [...]
The university top ten
Once again, the top universities in the world are in the UK and the US according to research from the Times Higher Education QS. This is good news for the western universities, as this will bring in some valued income from foreign students.
Top Ten Universities:
Harvard
Yale
Cambridge
Oxford
California Instit. of Technology
Imperial College London
University College London
University of Chicago
Massachusetts Instit. [...]
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 [...]