The amount of time children spend on electronic devices has little influence on their sleeping hours, a latest study by Oxford University suggests. This study was carried-out by the Oxford Internet Institute, a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford and aimed at exploring the impact of gadget screen-time on children’s sleeping habits and timings.
If you are planning to study psychology at the university level, the US has some of the best institutions in the world for the purpose, as revealed by the Times Higher Education Rankings 2019 and Stanford University is the best among them all.
Millions of girls are still out of school in Pakistan because the government spends little on girls’ education, a leading international rights group said in its latest report. According to the HRW education report, Pakistan’s education system is in dire crisis, with lack of basic education amenities for disadvantaged children, particularly girls.
For each year that a child spends in education, the gap between the rich and poor grows wider, according to a new OECD social mobility report. With a manifold increase in income inequality since 1990s, social mobility factors have stalled, meaning that fewer people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder have moved up, the report findings state.
Teachers wishing to enjoy a high stature in society should move to China, Malaysia or Taiwan, as these are the countries that give most respect to teachers and the teaching profession.
The findings were highlighted by an international survey by Varkey GEMS Foundation that was initiated to find out the status of teachers across the globe and to pinpoint the countries where they enjoyed the highest levels of public esteem.
American universities have dominated the Times Higher Education Rankings’ 2019 table for clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects subjects, although Oxford was still the best university for clinical and health sciences in the world for the eighth consecutive year.
Not that long ago, small rectangular blackboards called slates were used in most American, British and Australian classrooms. Balanced on the knees of students, it was a great way to teach young students to write as they were mobile, light weight, and could be used over and over. Modern education is now moving from blackboards to interactive whiteboards, textbooks to educational apps and archaic slates to tablets or laptops.
For Japanese students, being able to speak English isn’t indispensable but rather an optional skill that is ‘nice to have’. With lack of methods that focus on grasping what was learned in class, Japanese students still lack English language skills in the global era.
Saudi Arabia dominated the QS Arab Region University Rankings 2019 with 23 of the country’s universities making it to the top 50. Three Saudi universities secured a place in the top 10, including the number 1 spot in the latest ranking.