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 [...]
December 24, 2007Learning languages online
Learning a language is pretty hard, but when you are leading a busy life, then this sort of thing get often gets left off and it ends up being one of those things that never gets done.
But there is way that a lot of people have begun to use and this does not involve having [...]
English minorities in some schools
There are some schools in the UK where English is not the first language, around 574 out of the 17,361 primary schools and 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, which do not have English have their first language.
There is a high concentration of these schools in London, Leicester, Blackburn and Birmingham, this follows the call [...]
File sharing give University problems
When US Universities and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) formed an alliance to try and stop students from downloading files from illegal sources, it was thought of as being a sensible move, but this alliance has created some problems for the Universities.
The software toolkit provided was supposed to detect and prevent an illegal [...]
Teacher still awaits fate in Sudan
A teacher from Liverpool, who has been working in the Sudan, has been waiting in police custody while the authorities decide her fate, which could be as bad as receiving forty lashes.
Her crime was to call a seven year old child’s toy teddy bear Muhammad, the same name as the Prophet of Islam and because [...]