Education
Right solution toUK academic fraud
30/06/2008
IN THE wake of recent allegations of academic fraud in the United Kingdom, Geoffrey Alderman and Roger Brown argue that...
Who needs the humanities? We humans all do!
30/06/2008
NOWADAYS, in country after country, policymakers have become obsessed with the need to strengthen science education....
Time more Bruneians seek entry to Oxford, Cambridge
30/06/2008
OXFORD and Cambridge are the top universities in the UK. If you are a bright sixth former with good grades, you should...
UK university standards 'sacrificed': academician
23/06/2008
BRITISH universities are handing out record numbers of first-class degrees in a "grotesque" attempt to climb...
Buses used as mobile schools for India's slum children
23/06/2008
AS THE bright yellow bus navigates a maze of potholed alleys to a trash pickers' slum, New Delhi's latest scheme for...
Breaking down barriers to get parents involved
23/06/2008
IN THIS era of hovering parents, the principal of Brien McMahon High School noticed one group conspicuously on the...
Ugandan schoolgirls face many hurdles to education
23/06/2008
AGNES AMEO is the only girl from her village ever to have passed O-levels, and now she is setting another record...
'It's easy for students to speak Minglish'
16/06/2008
A LOCAL headmistress recently in a report to the MOE that it's difficult to get students to use tenses in English,...
English is getting too hard to read even for children
16/06/2008
CONFUSING spelling system is blamed as literacy falls short of level in other European nations. The English spelling...
60,000 top pupils fail to enter universities
16/06/2008
SOME 60,000 of the highest achieving school leavers a year are failing to reach university, according to research. ...
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