Opportunities

Rockstar Van Zandt promotes music education

This month, rockstar hall of fame, Steven Van Zandt, came to a town in a state of Colorado to promote music education. Van Zandt and his music band made their way to the Central Library of the Erie town. The stop was to meet the town county executive Mark Poloncarz. Before the crowd, Poloncranz declaimed […]

Institution United States

Florida public schools are subjected to enact mental health education

This week, the Florida State Board of Education elected to implement mental health education in public school curriculums. Within the newly formed order, it was formally stated that educational facilities are compelled to have “at least five (5) hours of mental health instruction” for students in grades six (6) to twelve (12) in every school […]

Institution

AU officers’ objective to develop K-12 public military education

At the Association of Defense Communities (ADC) National Summit, military officials approached on the issue about collaborating with communities to aid K-12 public education for military-related students in Washington. The chief staff of Air Force, Gen. David Goldfein, mentioned this at the summit: “As I visit installations, the number one quality of life issue for […]

Finance United States

Racial wealth gap concerning student debt

With a skyrocketing student debt of one point five trillion United States dollars ($1.5 trillion), it causes distress to the forty-four (44) million American population across the country. However, a study shows that inequality is counted as a determining factor on how a student deal with cost living. From the year 2003 to 2008, student […]

Europe Innovation

How women aim to be pioneers in EdTech revolution

Department for Education (DfE) revealed the plan for building “the best EdTech ecosystem in the world” by implementing the new strategy. UK economy has estimated that the edtech exports have a £170 million value in developing future learning technologies in the face of tightening school budgets.  Daphne Koller, the online study space creator of Coursera, […]

Schools Students

Ex-Conservative Minister Vaizey deplores relentless focus on STEM

Ex-Conservative Minister Ed Vaizey has expressed that the “relentless focus on STEM (in effect the three Rs, and the EBacc) ” should be changed during the debate in Westminster Hall for uplifting music education. As Vaizey has mentioned to the Members of Parliament (MP), he expressed his dissatisfaction in this statement:  “…one of the frustrations […]

India Asia Teachers

Student-teacher ratio in India is alarmingly low

India drags behind numerous countries when it comes to university education student-teacher ratios. A report prepared by the government shows that the student-teacher ration of twenty-four to one (24:1) in India is the lowest compared to several other counties. Brazil and China have about nineteen students per one teacher (19:1), Britain has a ratio of […]