United States Universities

MIT apologizes for $800K Epstein grant

In a letter dated 22 August, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) expressed their concern and apologies about the fact that controversial public figure Jeffrey Epstein granted more than eight hundred thousand dollars (USD 800,000) to the university. The letter detailed that the MIT Media Lab, and one of the professors running it received several […]

Blockchain

IOTA to spend $5 million on introducing Coordicide

IOTA, a permissionless distributed ledger, is going to spend more than five million dollars (USD 5 million) to research and develop Coordicide, a plan to remove the centralized node, which is currently the cornerstone of the whole network. The main goal of the project is to offer users a transfer network without any fees. However, […]

Science United States

Send students to space – why not?

Reusability drives the New Zealand-based company Rocket Lab to launch a market for small rockets that uses helicopter and parachute as it lands back on Earth. The question is: is there a possibility to send students to space? Rocket Lab is on its way in developing Electron rockets in a similar ground as Elon Musk’s […]

Nonprofits

3 communities foster STEM learning

Inspiring communities begin to spring up to foster learning for STEM girls in their latent and creative capabilities in spite of the alarming increase of the gender workforce gap. Within the science and engineering (S&E) labor force, it used to be so tough for women to break into the field because of the lack of […]

Science

Israel higher education receives USD 56 million for research and science development

According to a recent announcement, the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE) has officially signed off on a fifty-six million dollar program (USD 56 million), which will aim to support scientific research in the country’s leading higher education institutions.  The program is a joint effort between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States-Israel […]

Europe Universities

Art students dissatisfied with paying more than 20,000 pounds for course without tutors

Students from the Glasgow School of Art, currently located at one of the typical architectural projects of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, have expressed their dissatisfaction with the quality of education they are getting.  The chief complaint of students is that some of them have invested up to twenty thousand pounds in their courses; however, there are […]

Africa Schools

Private schools are essential for the development of education in Nigeria

Private schools around Nigeria are outputting better results compared to public ones, according to educators. According to Ms. Ann Oparah, these schools are more ambitious in providing quality training and education for their students, as they feel more pressure from parents as well, considering the tuition fees these schools receive yearly.  Ms. Oparah has also stated […]

Europe Government

Northern Ireland struggles with funding for education

According to a recent statement by Derek Baker from the Department of Education, Northern Ireland is currently facing severe financial problems in terms of supporting the educational system. These comments come among increased tension between the Department of Education and parents because of the high costs of school uniforms, and supplementary school materials.  According to […]