WISE EdTech Accelerator Seeks Ventures with High Potential to Impact Education at Scale

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation, has announced the opening of applications for the 2026–2027 cycle of the WISE EdTech Accelerator, inviting early-stage education…

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What Should an Engineering Open Day Really Show Students?

For someone considering engineering study, a course title answers only part of the question. The harder decisions concern what learning will involve: how practical work is taught, when attendance is required, and whether…

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I’m a pediatrician. Loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI | Megan Moreno

The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones , a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI . The release of The Social Reckoning leads us to ask, "How bad were those guys…

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Millions of Medicaid recipients to face draconian requirements as of 1 January

As the midterm elections loom, everyone from hospital leaders and to patient advocates are focused on the New Year, when Republicans scheduled the most controversial elements of their healthcare reform law to go into…

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Cut screen time in classrooms to avoid long-term health issues, clinicians urge

The clinicians said they are prescribing glasses, hearing aids and speech therapy to children "for a problem that is unintentionally being made worse in our schools". The government said it was consulting on screen time…

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Cardiff and Vale College marks the topping out ofits new landmark Vale campuses

The topping out milestone sees the full structure for both the Barry Waterfront Campus and the Advanced Technology Centre completed to their highest point, and the significant £119m project move into the next phase of…

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6 in 10 leave school without enough information about their options as AAT urges Burnham to look beyond ‘hard hat’ careers

Aiming to encourage thousands of young people to explore a career pathway that could change their lives – including the nearly million not currently in education, employment or training [1] – the campaign will showcase…

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Bacon, eggs and Bowie: how year 12 English students tackled ‘human strength and vulnerability’ in HSC paper

"But after doing the exam, I feel perfectly fine, I feel content, like I did the best I possibly could," he said after the HSC English 1 paper on Tuesday. Mary Alnimry listened to the song Heroes by the late David Bowie…

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Colleges will be key to Delivering the Prime Minister’s Youth Offer

He spoke of almost a million young people who are not working or learning, and of a school system “overly focused on the university route and not enough on technical education”. Colleges see the consequences of that…

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Bedbug infestation forces Qantas to ground plane in Rome

The parasitic insects were found in the front of the economy section of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as it made its way from Perth to Rome for the QF5 flight on 9 October, a source with knowledge of the incident confirmed…

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