With her genetically modified project, a 13-year-old student from Cashmere High School, Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ), won the latest “Sir Paul Callaghan Eureka! Premier Award”. The Eureka award has been on since 2012, it gathers students from across New Zealand presenting various researches involving science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM)that can help benefit the country. […]
While the advancement of digital media has brought significant improvement to educational systems in terms of cost reduction, recent studies have discovered that students tend to absorb more information when they are reading printed texts. According to a faculty member at the University of North Dakota, students’ understanding and memorization of printed texts are higher […]
Damian Hinds, the outgoing Secretary of State for Education of the United Kingdom (UK), criticized university admissions procedures, specifically, the disturbing presence of many “pressure-selling tactics, which are harming students’ grades” as they symbolized broader issues. University admissions utilize systems where prospective students are allocated slots based on estimated grades. This approach is imperfect, and this makes […]
Scientists speculated that the minuscule hard creatures called tardigrades may be the first life to survive in the barren surface of the moon. To this day, experts have been keeping tabs on how these beings walk on their own. Nova Spivack, the co-founder and chairman of Arch Mission Foundation, speculated that tardigrades have “extremely high” […]
Published in Nature, a national study released this week which revealed that growth mindset intervention boosts academic success resulting in having higher grades. The study involved about twelve thousand and five hundred (12,500) ninth (9th) graders for the evaluation. These freshman students showed that by having two (2) sessions with a twenty-five (25) minutes duration […]
NASA poses a challenge for the students to be part of the space exploration for the upcoming mission which aims to set humans to the moon in 2024. To participate, students from graduate and bachelor’s program have to submit proposals for the new competition called the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concept – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL). The […]
Including a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in the resume apparently boosts chances of getting more attractive business career opportunities. To give more light about the subject, comparing data according to various programs and employment statistics is crucial. According to US News best grad schools ranking, in 131 MBA programs shows that two (2) types […]
Getting an MBA does NOT necessarily mean surefire becoming a CEO. In fact, only thirty-one (31) out of the top 100 CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies have an MBA. Not only that, the majority of the thirty-one (31) CEOs did not get their MBA degree from prestigious and top-rank business schools. Most of them […]
Times Higher Education (THE) released their data called World University Rankings to show the top picks for education degrees for 2019. The calculation included about 1,250 universities using thirteen (13) performance indicators. It values independent assessment with comprehensive comparisons and has been the only global university ranking who has done this by far. Unshakeable, University […]
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 […]
