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Manners really do make us – it could be that they are one of the keys to being human. Scientists have suggested that good manners not only distinguish us from the rest of the animal kingdom, they help keep humans free of disease and underpin the co-operation that helps the world go round. Dr Val […]
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The end of the world is not nigh. Life will thrive on Earth for at least another 1.75billion years and perhaps as many as 3.5billion. Beyond then, the Sun will have become so hot that nothing will be able to survive, scientists believe. Ever since it was formed, our planet has been at just the
Education is way more than sitting in a classroom. Unfortunately, it is often the same old story. Go to school. Read, write, learn math, history, science, and the searing pain of social rejection. Go home. Forget everything you learned. While having a specific course for each of these ‘subjects’ might be a long way off
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(By Alex Reichert) In secondary school, I was the type of person who felt no reason to read. For my history classes, the only parts of the textbooks I read were section heads, words in boldface type, and highlighted passages. Spark notes got me through my English classes, and for everything else there was Wikipedia.
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Mathematics is the language of science and has enabled mankind to make extraordinary technological advances. There is no question that the logic and order that underpins mathematics, has served us in describing the patterns and structure we find in nature. The successes that have been achieved, from the mathematics of the cosmos down to electronic
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Students at the Yaba College of Technology this morning shut down the institution to protest a vicious attack on one of the students by an unnamed assailant identified simply as a member of a cult group. The stabbing attack took place last night. We learnt that the college’s students began their protests around 10 p.m.
A 21-year-old form four student in the county of Murang’a, Kenya has created an electricity generating system, which enables him to tap power from a river near his home to light the house in which he, his mother and siblings live in. John Magiro is an E student, and it’s so amazing how much
65 percent credit pass recorded in 2013 National Examinations Council (NECO) result After three years of consecutive mass failure at Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday announced that 69.57 per cent candidates had five credits and above in the June/July 2013. Announcing this year’s school based examination in Minna, the
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(By Fred Sitkins) I’ve been attempting to develop “lifelong learners” for longer than I’d like to admit. The concept has always been there, but the reality of developing learners has proven much more difficult than imagined. Throughout my years in education I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to work with a great number of extremely dedicated and
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Learning technologies change student-resource interactions not only by the amount of resources that are now available to students, but also by the quality of the resources. Instead of students being limited to the textbook they receive from their school, that may or may not be outdated, they now have access to resources from literally around
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