EducationWorld December 09

Americas Harvard University remains top of the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for the sixth year running. But the UKs University of Cambridge is now second, pushing Yale University into third place. Fourth place is taken by University College London, up from seventh last year. Fifth place is shared by Imperial College London, up […]

And what was the minotaur? The ten-year-olds scribble their answer onto tiny whiteboards and hold them up for the teacher to see. Once each has got a nod, they repeat together: half-man, half-bull.By the time these fifth-graders at the Basis School in Scottsdale, Arizona, reach 8th grade they will have the option of taking Advanced […]

School textbooks in China have a habit of bending the truth to suit Communist Party dogma or to reinforce moral messages. Rarely does anyone challenge them. Exams require rote learning, and children are not encouraged to question received wisdom. A group of 20 or so teachers from across China, however, has recently caused a stir […]

Arab world falling behind issue of science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was devoted to research into ‘Ardi or Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old hominid species whose discovery deepens understanding of human evolution. These latest studies suggest, among other things, that rather than descending from a closely related […]

Regretably as the Expert Comment column (written by Dr. Neeraj Kaushal of Columbia University, USA) in this issue of EducationWorld highlights, the teachers community in India doesnt enjoy a good reputation. Several studies and surveys have confirmed that on any given school day, 25 percent of government school teachers countrywide dont show up for work. […]

Cautiously but inexorably, historic ideological barriers and hurdles impeding close educa-tion — particularly higher education — collaboration between the worlds oldest and most populous democracies are being dismantled. The Indo-US Educa-tion Council is looming increasingly large on the agendas of the two coun-tries, and theres a distinct possibility of prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singhs recent […]