Sri Lanka’s Education Ministry is preparing to implement the second phase of its proposed education reforms next year, as the government faces the challenge of securing public understanding and political support for
Despite the ongoing devastation of Gaza, many of the region’s dedicated scientists continue to push forward with their research, showing an unwavering commitment to education and knowledge. The scientists spoke to Nature
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The question of whether the internet and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are altering our ability to remember and learn has sparked significant debate. As digital tools, search engines, and AI
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The University of California (UC) system is facing a federal lawsuit accusing it of racial discrimination in its admissions process. The lawsuit, filed on Monday by Students Against Racial Discrimination, claims that
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The UK government is moving to tighten controls on university franchising arrangements in a bid to address fraudulent practices that have exploited the student loan system. As reported by the Financial Times,
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In the spring of 1975, 19-year-old Bill Gates was a student at Harvard University. But when he wasn’t experimenting with acid or playing high-stakes poker, he spent every spare hour in Harvard’s
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Mice with two fathers have been successfully created and survived to adulthood following a complex set of experiments led by a team in China. The breakthrough, conducted by Zhi-Kun Li and his
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A new investigation has revealed the significant financial influence China holds over some of the UK’s most prestigious universities, raising questions about Beijing’s growing role in shaping academic and research agendas in
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The wife of the former UK Prime Minister and her mother, renowned engineer and philanthropist Sudha Murty, share insights on wealth, philanthropy, and the values that shaped their lives. Below are excerpts
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucious International Day of Education falls on 24 January each year. Under the theme “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency
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Most people learn to count and do basic arithmetic at a young age and don’t give these skills a second thought. But numerosity or numeracy, the ability to think about and use
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Recent research has confirmed the existence of enormous mountains buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface—structures far taller than Mount Everest. These mountains, located within Earth’s mantle, are around 1,000 kilometers tall, over
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Rishi Sunak, the former UK prime minister, has announced prestigious new roles at both Oxford University and Stanford University, marking a notable return to his academic roots. As reported by The Times
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Most of our world is experiencing a time of public discontent that now necessitates accomplishing a better and different driver of renewal for our cities and rural places. Let us consider a
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V. Kamakoti, director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, has sparked a nationwide debate after advocating for the “medicinal value” of cow urine during a recent public event in
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Editorial The 99th birth anniversary of Professor S. Mahalingam on January 16 passes in hushed silence, unaccompanied by the cacophonous adulation that this nation reserves for far lesser figures—a scathing indictment of
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