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Driver in Italy accused of setting fire to school bus carrying 51 childrenMarch 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM Bus driver arrested in Milan after allegedly shouting: ‘Nobody gets off here alive’The driver of a school bus has been arrested in Milan after allegedly setting the vehicle on fire with 51 children onboard.One of the children called the police after the driver stopped the bus on a highway in the outskirts of the city, Italian media reported. Continue reading...Tags: Europe, Milan, Education, World news, Italy, Schools 46 people like this. Like Driver arrested in Milan after allegedly setting school bus on fireMarch 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM Bus driver allegedly set vehicle alight with 51 children on it and said: ‘Nobody gets off here alive’The driver of a school bus was arrested in Milan on Wednesday after allegedly setting the vehicle on fire with 51 children on board.One of the children called the police after the driver stopped the bus on a highway in the outskirts of the city, Italian media reported. Continue reading...Tags: Europe, Milan, Education, World news, Italy, Schools 12 people like this. Like Visa extension to boost numbers of overseas students in UK after BrexitMarch 15, 2019 at 8:01 PM New measures will allow international students to seek employment for up to a yearInternational students will be given visa extensions of up to a year to look for work in the UK as part of a package of government measures to boost numbers of overseas students after Brexit.The move represents a break with current policy, where students are allowed to stay for just four months after graduation. Continue reading...Tags: Europe, Politics, UK, Students, Education, European Union, UK News, World news, Immigration and asylum, Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Universities, International Students, Brexit 41 people like this. Like When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!March 14, 2019 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Google, Europe, Books, Maryland, Writing, College, Washington, Literature, Guinness Book of World Records, Lincoln, Sherman, Jonathan Coe, Jones, William Styron, Facebook Twitter, Beckett 103 people like this. Like When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: 1,288 Words from Absalom, Absalom!March 14, 2019 at 7:00 AM Tags: Google, Europe, Books, Maryland, Writing, College, Washington, Literature, Guinness Book of World Records, Lincoln, Sherman, Jonathan Coe, Jones, William Styron, Facebook Twitter, Beckett 58 people like this. Like Who are the next billion users and what do they want?March 8, 2019 at 12:47 PM  Tags: Facebook, Asia, Europe, New York, Education, California, Government, India, Tech, Infrastructure, West, Netherlands, Brazil, Silicon Valley, Detroit, Wall 66 people like this. Like Inspiring girls and women to pursue their career ambitionsMarch 8, 2019 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, Education, Africa, Middle East, Mckinsey, Diversity and Inclusion, Miriam Gonzalez, Grow With Google, Inspiring Girls International 144 people like this. Like The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put OnlineMarch 6, 2019 at 1:59 PM  Tags: Google, Art, Europe, Books, College, History, Ireland, Middle East, Dublin, Iona, County Meath, North Africa, Moss, Facebook Twitter, Ryan, Trinity College Dublin 140 people like this. Like Superyachts and private schools: Britain's dirty money problemMarch 5, 2019 at 10:00 PM Russian money – some legitimate, some the proceeds of fraud – was channeled through a Lithuanian bank into the UK, according to a major leak of banking documents. The Guardian’s Juliette Garside has been investigating for months and describes how Prince Charles and some of England’s most exclusive schools have benefited. Plus: Ben Beaumont-Thomas on the legacy of the Prodigy’s Keith FlintThe leak of more than 1m bank transactions has shown how an estimated $4.6bn (£3.5bn) was sent to Europe and ...Tags: Europe, Business, UK, England, Education, Vladimir Putin, Russia, US, World news, Banking, Britain, The Guardian, Prince Charles, Armenia, Guardian, Charles 19 people like this. Like A Tactile Map of the Roman Empire: An Innovative Map That Allowed Blind & Sighted Students to Experience Geography by Touch (1888)March 4, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, Maps, College, History, United States, Michigan, Facebook Twitter, Howe, Klemm, Josh Jones, Roman Empire, Perkins School, Durham NC Follow, Smithsonian Museums, Rebecca Onion 149 people like this. Like 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written LanguageMarch 1, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, College, Africa, History, Portugal, TED Talks, George, Facebook Twitter, Jacobs, Josh Jones, Durham NC Follow, Genevieve von Petzinger, Frank Jacobs, Petzinger, Von Petzinger 134 people like this. Like Finland’s education system is failing. Should we look to Asia?February 28, 2019 at 10:59 AM  Tags: Asia, Europe, Japan, Education, Society, Taiwan, Policy, Teaching, United States, Testing, Innovation, Cambridge, Finland, OECD, Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post 84 people like this. Like All that glitters not gold? Criticisms of Finland’s education system.February 28, 2019 at 10:59 AM  Tags: Asia, Europe, Japan, Education, Society, Taiwan, Policy, Teaching, United States, Testing, Innovation, Cambridge, Finland, OECD, Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post 101 people like this. Like Skin in the game: do we need to take down nudes – or look at them harder?February 27, 2019 at 10:26 AM The Royal Academy’s major exhibition of nudes features equal numbers of naked men and women. Is this progress?Things look different after #MeToo. And not just after #MeToo, but after several years of a surging fourth wave of feminism. There has been fury against patriarchy – with the term itself, after decades of dormancy, surging back into use to explain everything from the rise of Donald Trump to sexual violence in India to pay inequality in western Europe.Everywhere, dams of silence and fear ...Tags: Art, Europe, Education, India, Women, Painting, Life and style, Society, World news, Body Image, Culture, Feminism, Art and design, Drawing, Sexuality, Royal Academy of Arts 48 people like this. Like French teachers give top grades in protest at baccalaureate changesFebruary 25, 2019 at 9:06 AM Protesters use tactic to fight Emmanuel Macron’s proposed changes to high school exam Teachers in Paris and western France have begun giving every pupil in their classes top marks in tests and evaluations in protest at changes to France’s baccalaureate exams.The baccalaureate, which pupils take in their last year of high school, is based on a structure created under Napoleon in 1808. A revamp of the education system by the president, Emmanuel Macron, has been presented as key to his pro-business...Tags: Europe, Education, France, World news, Paris, Napoleon, Emmanuel Macron 30 people like this. Like Sebastian Thrun initiates aggressive plan to transform UdacityFebruary 22, 2019 at 2:27 PM “I’m a fighter. I believe in our people, I believe in our mission, and I believe that it should exist and must exist.”
Sebastian Thrun is talking animatedly about Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup that he co-founded nearly eight years ago. His tone is buoyant and hopeful. He’s encouraged, he says over an occasionally crackly phone call, about the progress the company has made in such a short time. There’s even a new interim COO, former HP and GE executive Lalit Singh, who ...Tags: Google, TC, Asia, Europe, Hollywood, Ge, Education, China, Tech, CMO, Hp, Banking, X, Canada, Middle East, North America 16 people like this. Like Watch Bauhaus World, a Free Documentary That Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Germany’s Legendary Art, Architecture & Design SchoolFebruary 19, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, Japan, Design, London, College, Mexico, Germany, Architecture, Tokyo, Nazi, Detroit, Seoul, Bauhaus, Amman, Deutsche Welle 95 people like this. Like What a European education project can tell us about Brexit – podcastFebruary 17, 2019 at 10:00 PM When the writer Peter Pomerantsev was a teenager, he was sent to a school that was part of the European Schools network, which counts Boris Johnson among its alumni. He discusses what the project can tell us about the EU. Plus: the Guardian’s UK technology editor, Alex Hern, on AI advancements The writer Peter Pomerantsev was 15 when his parents moved to Germany and enrolled him at the European School in Munich. The schools were set up in 1956 with the aim of educating the students to be “in min...Tags: Europe, UK, Technology, Education, Germany, Eu, European Union, Munich, Boris Johnson, Peter Pomerantsev, Brexit, Alex Hern, Brexit Boris Johnson, Artificial intelligence (AI, European School, Brussels Pomerantsev 18 people like this. Like Standardized tests: Finland’s education system vs. the U.S.February 15, 2019 at 1:26 PM  Tags: Hong Kong, Europe, Florida, Texas, Education, California, China, Singapore, New York City, Society, Policy, Teaching, United States, Testing, Innovation, Finland 55 people like this. Like Historic Manuscript Filled with Beautiful Illustrations of Cuban Flowers & Plants Is Now Online (1826 )February 11, 2019 at 3:05 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Europe, Books, Science, College, Cuba, Cornell, Darwin, Mary, Facebook Twitter, Josef Albers, Josh Jones, Euclid, Mary Shelley, Goethe 84 people like this. Like How does Finland’s top-ranking education system work?February 8, 2019 at 2:29 PM  Tags: Europe, Education, Washington Post, Society, Policy, Teaching, United States, Testing, Innovation, Finland, Universities, Social Change, Don, John Dewey, Dewey, Pasi Sahlberg Google Cloud offers global support for academic researchFebruary 5, 2019 at 3:00 AM Today’s scientific computing demands lightning-fast speed, vast data storage, and intensive processing power in order to advance discoveries across disciplines, from genomics to climate change. Two new agreements and a range of initiatives in Europe and the United States expand Google’s support for academic researchers globally, enabling them to leverage the benefits of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), our infrastructure as a service platform.Giving European researchers easy access to GCP through ou...Tags: Google, Europe, Education, India, United States, Norway, Google Cloud Platform, NSF, Europe Google, Geant, Google Cloud, GCP, Google Cloud Platform GCP, Europe GÉANT, National Research and Education Networks NRENs, Andres Steijaert Project Leader Cloud Services 49 people like this. Like 2000s Fashion Icons: BeyoncéFebruary 1, 2019 at 6:00 PM  Tags: Europe, Music, Beyonce, Australia, College, Jay Z, Inspiration, United States, Britney Spears, Queen Bey, Great Wall Of China, Rumi, Carter, Bey, Britney, Knowles 70 people like this. Like Egypt frustrates Giulio Regeni investigation, three years onJanuary 25, 2019 at 12:00 AM Italian doctoral student’s family seek truth about his torture and murder in early 2016Three years after the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, Egypt is stonewalling Italy’s efforts to investigate.In November, Italian prosecutors officially named five members of Egypt’s security services as subject to investigation in the case of Regeni, who went missing on 25 January 2016 aged 28. But two months on, Egypt has barely acknowledged the development...Tags: Europe, Students, Education, Africa, World news, Middle East and North Africa, Egypt, Higher Education, Italy, Cairo Egypt, Giulio Regeni 20 people like this. Like pi-top’s latest edtech tool doubles down on maker cultureJanuary 23, 2019 at 11:05 AM  Tags: Apple, Learn To Code, Startups, TC, Gadgets, Europe, Texas, London, Hardware, Education, Raspberry Pi, Electronics, California, China, Stem, Tech 111 people like this. Like Around the world and back with Google for EducationJanuary 22, 2019 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Europe, Japan, UK, London, Education, Australia, Mexico, Asia Pacific, Dartmouth, New Zealand, Brazil, Google Docs, Canberra, North America 121 people like this. Like Academic who defined news principles says journalists are too negativeJanuary 18, 2019 at 2:00 AM Exclusive: preoccupation with conflict fosters insecurity, populism and trust deficit, says Johan GaltungThe academic who first defined the essence of news journalism has said the media have misconstrued his work and become far too negative, sensational and adversarial.Johan Galtung, a Norwegian professor who wrote a key scientific paper more than 50 years ago that listed a series of factors including conflict and immediacy as the hallmarks of news reporting, said his work was intended as a warn...Tags: Europe, Media, Education, Journalism, World news, Publishing And Public Relations, Norway, Johan Galtung, Johan GaltungThe 36 people like this. Like Child abuse cases quadruple when report cards are sent home on FridaysJanuary 15, 2019 at 10:02 AM  Tags: Europe, Florida, Education, Children, Youth, US, America, Vulnerability, United States, Iowa, New Jersey, Innovation, Paraguay, Finland, Violence, Norway 110 people like this. Like The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive BrexitJanuary 14, 2019 at 2:15 PM There is little doubt that the United Kingdom’s separation from Europe will reduce its competitiveness for the foreseeable future, argues Michael E. Porter. Here's what can be done about it. [Author: by Michael Blanding]Tags: Europe, UK, College, United Kingdom, Michael Blanding, Michael E Porter, by Michael Blanding 14 people like this. Like Home Equity, If Used, Offers Big Boost to Retirees’ IncomeJanuary 13, 2019 at 5:26 PM If converted to income, untapped home equity for seniors in the United States and 10 European countries could make for a significant supplement to retirement income, according to data released by the Urban Institute and highlighted in a blog post at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research (BCCRR).
“The typical retired U.S. household has the potential to increase its retirement income by 35 percent,” the blog post writes, based on research conducted by Stipica Mudrazija and Barbara B...Tags: Europe, Featured, Sweden, Education, Retirement, Finance, Spain, Data, United States, Boston College, Urban Institute, Center for Retirement Research, BCCRR, Stipica Mudrazija, Barbara Butrica 27 people like this. Like |
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