At Thy English Academy, we take inequality seriously; we want to make an actual difference in local families’ lives. Hence, we were able to make a full year of tuition available to one child. This boy receives Maths tuition at Thy English Academy every other week. This will help him prepare for his upcoming entrance exams. Next academic …
Since 2005, the private education sector has experience greater growth than the public education sector in Africa. This holds for Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education except for Kindergarten. One in four children is enrolled in a private school that is either corporate, not-for-profit or charitable. Many of these schools are faith-based or focus on technology. …
Since Brexit was officially announced, Racism seems to become more and more tolerated within the British society. Verbally or physical assault against people from a different origin is not only wrongly becoming more and more acceptable amongst adults, but also students show discrimination against their fellow students. Hence, teachers are asked to pay attention to …
Since Chinese students are amongst the top performers world wide, the UK has decided to learn from the best. A new alliance has been agreed on, where Chinese Maths books are being translated into English. This will allow British students to learn with the same materials that Chinese pupils use. 36 books will be translated …
While most of the time, when taking about education in India the media reports the downfall of education for poor children, these days India has been in the news for its outstanding success in the worldwide university ranking. With 33 Indian university in the Top 300 global universities list, India has truly shown that its …
Specialists, including psychologists and neuroscientists have been arguing about the place of learning styles in the classroom. It is clear that some students are so-called auditory learners and others learn visually more easily. However, experts warn now that although these students might find it easier to learn one or another way, they nevertheless learn through …
A new survey shows that 43% of the children at the highest achieving secondary schools are from the wealthiest 20% of families in the UK. This shows that children from middle class families have lower chances of receiving the best education. However, 90% of parents believe it is very important for their child to attend …
Worldwide 130 Million women and girls do not receive adequate education. This is the reason for illnesses to spread quickly in developing countries and for many families to not be able to escape poverty. Furthermore, women do not have control over family planning since they never get educated about birth control. Although it has been …
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According to a recently published study, only 1% of the 970 participants rated education as being the most important issue in Britain. The most common answer, with 49% agreeing, on the other hand, was NHS. This was followed by Housing, Economy and Unemployment. The results are surprising considering that lately there has been a lot …
In 2014 the Glasgow School of Arts library burnt down. “Ash to Art” is a project aiming at raising money for the renovation of the Mackintosh library. Multiple famous artists, amongst which are Sir Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Simon Starling, were sent burnt parts from the library which they were instructed to use to create new …
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