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February 1, 2021 | 12:33 am Advertisement AAA The pandemic would have given the government a chance to use technology to reboot the country’s education system, but it highlighted serious problems instead, including slow internet connectivity. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS By Reporter JIRO A. NOBLE, 14, has been trying to learn Algebra on his own since classes started in October amid a coronavirus pandemic. The Grade 9 student from Batangas National High School finds ...

The writer was dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lums. MANY things are taken for granted and accepted as the norm. Only when examined through a particular lens — class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion — do we discern how arbitrary some of them may be. White privilege — the advantages that accrue just by virtue of colour — is one example. The privilege that goes with being male is another. Unexamined privileges exist in Pakistani education. At one time the Cambrid...

Published January 24, 2021, 12:46 PM Cebu Rep. Eduardo “Eddie” Gullas has called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to map out plans to boost the teaching of English in schools,  as he attributed the dismal performance of Filipino students in global reading, math, and science assessments to the failure to teach English effectively in elementary and high schools.  (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “We have to go all out in reinforcing English as the medium of instruction on all school lev...

Global Test Finds Digital Divide Reflected in Math, Science Scores Subscribe Copy URL In both math and science, the divide between the nation’s highest- and lowest-performing 8th graders continues to widen on national and international tests, and ongoing gaps in access and support to use technology in the classroom are likely to make it worse. Those findings were part of the first public release of the 2019 Trends in International Math and Science Study datab...

Arabs’ education improving but much work still to be done Nidhal Guessoum January 17, 2021 20:56 Zeina Amro attends an online class at home due to the coronavirus in the West Bank village of Dura near Hebron. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/9buc4 The latest results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study were released last month. This international assessment program is conducted every three years and, in this seventh iteration, tests were administered to more th...

TIMSS conducts study with 77% of eighth graders in math KUWAIT CITY, Jan 13, (KUNA): The Assistant Undersecretary for the Educational Research and Curriculum at Kuwait’s Ministry of Education (MoE) and Director of National Center for Education Development (NCED) Salah Dabsha said that Kuwait ranked first in the world in the indicator of order plus safety in schools, according to a study conducted by Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) with 77 percent of eighth grader...

In 1971, the American advertising agency Young & Rubicam launched a campaign themed “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” for what was then called the United Negro College Fund. The United Negro College Fund had a scholarship programme designed to support black students in their pursuit of post-school studies in various professions — an attempt to undo centuries-old deprivations, dubbed “compulsory ignorance” by some observers. It was a powerful advert that left an indelible mark in m...

UAE scores high in addressing skills mismatch: BCG 0 Comments Get daily business news from the region delivered straight to your inbox I agree to the terms and conditions SIGN UP BCG’s Future Skills Architect tool says UAE has a 15.1 point lead above global average January 11, 2021 The UAE is better positioned than its peers in addressing the global skills mismatch, a report by consultancy firm BCG says. The GCC country has an FSA score of 62.3, above the global average of 47.2, th...

THE future is STEM; this is a saying that has been hackneyed time and again. The government has continuously invested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), as seen in the recent tabling of Budget 2021 where RM400mil was allocated for research and development efforts under various ministries and agencies to support the development of science and technology. The question, however, is whether the country’s youth have an interest in the areas of STEM. In a recent study title...

Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian said Saturday that the government’s rescinding of its green light to limited face-to-face classes is a precautionary measure against a new strain of COVID-19 that is now spreading across the world.