“5G is coming.” We’ve heard it repeated by telecom giants and smartphone OEMs for years now. The fifth-generation network promises lightning fast download speeds, an IoT revolution, and rapid streaming with essentially zero latency,…
Oxford investigates former Iranian president’s son over DPhil…
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani denies claims that thesis proposal was written by others after academic complains of insider helpThe son of the former Iranian president Akbar Rafsanjani is being investigated by Oxford University after claims that…
The future of education or just hype? The…
A Silicon Valley startup could offer a template for universities shifting their courses online due to coronavirus No one could accuse CEO and businessman Ben Nelson of lacking ambition. “I wanted to create a university…
Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism…
Erin Simon had big goals for this school year. The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term…
How Investing in Relationships Leads to Academic Growth
When creating the transformative, deep learning experiences we all want for our students, relationships matter. Intuitively, we know this to be true, but what does it look like in schools? When creating the transformative, deep…
UCL renames three facilities that honoured prominent eugenicists
London university removes names of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson from two lecture theatres and a buildingUCL has renamed two lecture theatres and a building that honoured the prominent eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.The…
‘Students want to confront it’: academics on how…
Students have been calling for decolonised curriculums for years, yet few UK universities have made meaningful changesThe Black Lives Matter movement has turned up the pressure on all areas of UK society to confront its…
Why the Women’s Engineering Society still has its…
Britain gave the world the first official group for female engineers, but still only 12% of the UK’s engineering workforce are womenIn June 1919, seven women came together in London to do something unprecedented: they…
Clarks staff asked to help improve children’s language…
Shoe shop workers will receive training as government seeks to tackle poor literacy ratesStaff at Clarks shoe shops are to be asked to engage children in conversation to improve language skills, as part of a…