A groundbreaking set of new and diverse history modules developed by teachers and council staff in the London borough of Hackney, has been rolled out in local primary schools. “The…

Following the BLM protests and the toppling of the slave trader statue in Bristol, the London Mayor’s office decided last year to give the city a diversity makeover wherein a…

Starting in September 2020, Italy will be the first country in the world to introduce mandatory climate-related lessons in state schools. Schools will be obliged to include 33 hours of…

A building offering affordable housing now stands as a symbol of trans self-reliance and resilience.

A new project in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, is building schools using 3D printing technology. A new, 3D-printed school can be built in under a week with less waste and lower carbon…

A Japanese startup is giving students meat-growing machines the size of microwaves.  The Tokyo lab-grown meat company Integriculture has founded a non-profit project called the Shojinmeat Project which gives students the means to…

Sandjar K on Twitter For only the 2nd time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 y.o is increasing in the U.S. 69% of the surveyed young…

Germany has launched the first online university exclusively for refugees, offering free higher education anywhere in the world. Kiron University is based in Berlin, and currently offers courses to 1,000…

The school lunch recipe for climate action As California moves to slash greenhouse gases dramatically by 2030, and schools in San Francisco and elsewhere look to reduce their carbon emissions,…

Google is set to launch 3-6 month courses for career certificates. The courses will require approximately 5 hrs a week to complete and cost around $600. They require no previous…

Research including over 25,000 participants in China, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has shown that air pollution affects brain function.  Xi Chen and his colleagues Xi…

In October of 2018, Pepper, a resident robot at Middlesex University became the first robot to present at a UK parliamentary meeting.  Pepper provided evidence to the Education Committee regarding…

Despite a long-standing public commitment to free education, Liberia recently made the controversial announcement that it is seeking to outsource its entire primary school system to a private provider. Education…

Akshaya Patra, an Indian NGO that runs the world’s largest mid-day meal program of its kind, is teaming up with Accenture to use blockchain to improve meal delivery to schoolchildren.

A new platform in Brazil enables parents to track their children’s eating habits in school snack bars and cafeterias. The platform was developed by the company called Nutrebem and launched…

TripAdvisor announced on 12 October 2016 that it will no longer sell tickets to tourism experiences that allow contact with captive and endangered wild animals, such as elephant rides, tiger-petting…

The Justice for Black Farmers act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), addresses historic and ongoing discrimination against Black farmers in the US….

‘Whether you like it or not, I want these marriages to be terminated’, Theresa Kachindamoto, the appointed Chief of Malawi since 2003, told the 900,000 population of the Dedza District,…

Target is to set up indoor vertical farming systems in its stores this year, thanks to a collaboration with Food + Future CoLab, design firm IDEO and MIT Media Lab. The aim of…

At a school run by the Askhar Foundation in India, students pay their student fees with plastic waste. Each child brings up to 25 items to school each week. By paying the school fee in…

In 2015, more than 6.7 million college students are enrolled in online courses, according to the online assignment writers. In 10 years, the overwhelming number of students participating in online…