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21 avril 2018

Engineers Declare Support for STEM Diversity Research

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The American Society for Engineering Education this week published a statement in support of scholarly research on diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math education. More...

20 avril 2018

Lecture Instruction: Alive and Not So Well

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. New study of undergraduate STEM courses finds that lectures remain dominant -- despite finding after finding questioning their effectiveness. More...

19 avril 2018

NSF Grant to Cover Master Degrees in STEM Teaching and Bonuses

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. A six-year project at the University of Houston will develop, mentor and retain 30 STEM teacher-leaders in high-need school districts. More...

1 avril 2018

The STEM-Arts Reversal, Part III

By Alex Usher. So, on Monday, I showed how Ontario universities are changing their enrolment patterns in response to changing demand and what we saw was that over the period 2009-2016, enrolments in Arts stayed flat while enrolments in STEM rose by nearly 40%. More...

1 avril 2018

Never Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Story

By Alex Usher. Just as I finish writing about the huge boom in STEM enrolments, along comes the Financial Post’s Diane Francis with a dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers op-ed effectively arguing that international students are stealing all the spots in Science and Engineering. More...

27 mars 2018

Humanities and science collaboration isn’t well understood, but letting off STEAM is not the answer

The ConversationDebates about the need for the humanities and sciences to work together suffer from repetition compulsion. Too frequently, those writing on the subject immediately turn to the work of chemist and novelist C.P. Snow on the “two cultures” – a lecture that was written nearly 60 years ago. More...

27 mars 2018

Celebrating Marion Walter – and other unsung female mathematicians

The ConversationMarion Walter will turn 90 years old this July, but when you ask her about growing up, she’ll tell you she hasn’t yet.
She was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in Berlin. She and her sister, Ellen, attended a Jewish boarding school 390 miles away, in Herrlingen, Germany. More...

27 mars 2018

An exploding creative economy shows innovation policy shouldn’t focus only on STEM

The ConversationAustralians in creative industries have grown from 3.7% of the workforce in 1986 to 5.5% in the latest census. More...

25 mars 2018

Engineers Declare Support for STEM Diversity Research

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The American Society for Engineering Education this week published a statement in support of scholarly research on diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math education. More...

24 mars 2018

Do women in STEM experience hostile work environments?

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. Women in STEM jobs are more likely to experience hostile work environments, including discrimination and sexual harassment, according to a new nationally-representative Pew Research Center study. More...

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