Amazon said on Tuesday it is extending its computer science program Future Engineer to India. Through the program, for which Amazon partners with players such as Code.org, Amazon aims to bring CS education to underserved and underrepresented children and young adults. The company said it will offer several educational resources, scholarships, internships, and mentors to […]
Students and staff at Durham University complain of ‘apathy’
Open letter says situation with Trevelyan College principal is just one example of complacencyStudents and staff at the University of Durham have accused management of showing a “culture of apathy” towards bullying and harassment. They said the univers…
Students Don’t Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say
University students in courses from engineering to physics are having to be taught what files and folders are, The Verge reports, because that’s not how they’ve grown up using computers. Whenever they need a file, they just search for it. PCGamer summa…
EdSights gets a $5 million Series A for student retention services
When sister duo Claudia and Carolina Recchi were first building EdSights, they used a big guiding question. “In a perfect world [where] we somehow had a magic wand that allowed us to collect the data on whatever we want on our fingers, what would we want to know to prevent [college] students from dropping out?,” […]
Scotland Is Now the First Country to Require LGBTQ+ History in Schools
The new curriculum will also incorporate queer topics into everyday learning. More info from scot.gov. [via]
Students in England irate over reports of early loans repayment
Move would save Treasury as much as £2bn a year but would hit lower earners hardestStudents in England have reacted with anger to reports that the government is planning to make them start paying back their loans earlier in their careers when salaries…
Ever-changing dialects keep English moving – but grammar is its north star | Simon Jenkins
Protesting that ‘bad’ grammar should not hold someone back will not stop it from doing so. Accuracy is in everyone’s interestI say tomahto and you say tomayto. My wife says dahrling and I say my dear. We all speak differently, and some of us speak diff…
FCC showers schools across the US with $1.2B from Emergency Connectivity Fund
The FCC has sent out the first checks from its Emergency Connectivity Fund, an effort to help close the “homework gap” at schools by covering the cost of computers and internet services. Thousands of school districts, in every state plus D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, will split this first $1.2 billion distribution, and there’s still […]
Why do children in Britain always bear the brunt of Tory cuts? | Polly Toynbee
With such a cold and unfeeling government, it’s little wonder our birthrate is fallingThis is no country for babies. It’s no surprise the birthrate keeps falling when would-be parents face impossible obstacles. As in the 1930s, it happens in hard times…
A new start after 60: I became a priest at 63 – after 44 years as a soldier and a teacher
Newly installed in a Northumberland vicarage, Diana Johnson first felt her calling decades ago. But the church had to wait until she had raised her family – and transitionedAt 66, Diana Johnson has just embarked on her third career. She has moved to a …