Science Education

Science Education

ESMT Launches New Scholarships for Full-Time MBA Candidates

ESMT European School of Management and Technology is offering several additional merit-based scholarships for applicants to the Full-time MBA program beginning…

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Waterloo Global Science Initiative Announced

The global gathering will see international researchers, business leaders and public policy decision-makers help identify actions in the science and technology…

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Small classes have long-term benefit for all students

The research by Spyros Konstantopoulos, associate professor of education, is the first to examine the effects of class size over a sustained period and for all…

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Help Students Think like Soil Scientists

Drs. Josh Heitman and Michael Vepraskas, North Carolina State University Soil Science Department, highlighted this need for quantitative measurement skills in…

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Web-Based Training Demands New Skills for Professionals

Mona Nilsen from the Department of Education and Didactics, University of Gothenburg, has analysed continued professional development within the food…

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She's going back to school but can she read?

The fact that children who do not read well by the end of Grade 3 are at risk of dropping out or failing to graduate is one of the grim conclusions made in a…

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White Paper Unveils Future of Education in Switzerland

Education should not just provide the knowledge to perform professional duties; it should also help developing a deeper understanding in order to deal…

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New Science of Learning Offers Preview of Tomorrow’s Classroom

In the July 17, 2009 issue of the journal Science, researchers who are at the forefront of neuroscience, psychology, education, and machine learning have…

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Building Bridges: Students Unite Across Europe for Innovation

They have taken part in a developmental project together with students in six other European countries designed to strengthen the common European perspective.In European countries, national curricula are written for the schools, unique to each country, where issues involving knowledge, various values, and fostering of citizens are placed in a national perspective. …

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Young People’s Drive for Sustainable Development Action

Ellen Almers, at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping, Sweden, based her thesis on her investigation into what prompts young people to take…

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Texting in Class: The Rise of Mobile Phone Novels

“Some critics argue that mobile phone novels are not literature,” says Yukiko Nishimura, a linguist and professor of humanities at Toyo Gakuen University in…

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How Education Shapes Poverty: Insights from K-State Research

Kay Ann Taylor, associate professor of secondary education at K-State, has studied the historical and modern aspects of poverty, including its relationship…

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Driving Change: The Case for Sustainable Education Reform

The oxymoron stems from the reality of complex social processes. But this complexity is paralyzing educational reform efforts, said Century, director of…

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Fraunhofer FOKUS Forms New Tech Partnership in Malaysia

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Kuala Lumpur recently to formalise the partnership.Berlin-based Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems…

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UIC Center Funds 7 Innovative Projects for Human Therapies

The center's pilot grant program looks for UIC projects that involve human subjects or facilitate human subject investigations and have clear, near-term…

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Next COST Open Call: Deadline for Spring Proposals Announced

COST invites proposals for Actions contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal development of Europe. Proposals playing a…

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