The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
The transition from secondary education to university is one of the most decisive moments in a young person’s life, but the way that transition is managed varies dramatically around the world. While
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The social sciences are entering a period of deep uncertainty as artificial intelligence begins to reshape how research is conducted, how data is collected, and even how findings are written and published.
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A renewed Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is raising urgent questions about whether the world has truly learned the lessons of past pandemics. According to reporting from Nature,
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Sometimes you take a shot, say yes, and end up in a place you did not expect. That’s what brought me to the Understory Festival that took place in the National Cathedral in Washington,
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The global race for technological supremacy is increasingly being fought through artificial intelligence, robotics, and scientific innovation. But according to a growing body of analysis emerging from China’s education and research sectors,
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An 80-year-old problem in discrete geometry, first posed by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, has been solved in a way that contradicts his original conjecture, according to findings announced by OpenAI and
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“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” – Stephen Hawking Why? The decision for Sri Lanka to formulate a National Space Policy, recently approved by the
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A prominent professor at the University of Cambridge has been stripped of a prestigious college fellowship following an investigation that upheld multiple allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Herbert Huppert, an 82-year-old
More Britain’s leading universities are facing an escalating academic integrity crisis after cases of students cheating with artificial intelligence nearly tripled in a single academic year. More than 2,000 undergraduates at Russell Group
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In a region long shaped by linguistic diversity and political complexity, a university department in northern Sri Lanka is quietly redefining the future of higher education and employment. Speaking in an interview
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