By Colleen Flaherty. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, “Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education,” says that assessing quality and impact in STEM at the national level will require the collection of new data on changing student demographics, instructors’ use of evidence-based teaching approaches, student transfer patterns and more. More...
Techno-News Blog. When it comes to successful integration of technology — whether it’s a new learning management system across multiple campuses or video capture tools in the classroom — poor implementation or haphazard rollout can end up costing the institution more than the initial investment. Recently, for example, the state of Washington paid $2.6 million to settle a dispute after it canceled a contract with an ed tech company following its inability to effectively install a computer software program. More...
Techno-News Blog. The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has launched a national initiative designed to help close the gender gap in STEM education and employment over the next eight years. The organization aims to raise $70 million put 2.5 million girls through their STEM programs by 2025. More...
Ce mouvement, commun à toute l'Europe, a désormais atteint les masters français. Certaines universités ont alors fermé des cursus ou mutualisé les formations. Les masters recherche ont été les plus touchés.
Source : http://www.gref-bretagne.com/Actualites/Revue-de-presse/Enseignement-superieur.-Les-facultes-de-maths-ne-font-pas-le-plein
La théorie des cordes est un modèle physique théorique qui entend expliquer tout l’univers. Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicien, directeur de recherche au CNRS, nous en présente les richesses et les limites. Plus...Le président de l'Union des professeurs de classes préparatoires scientifiques s'alarme du faible niveau en sciences des élèves de la filière S au lycée. Plus...
Student success experts InsideTrack and the College of San Mateo (CSM), a leading San Francisco Bay Area community college, today announced the launch of a new program to increase the number of Latino and low-income students graduating with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) degrees. More...
The perception abounds around the world that science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM subjects, matter more economically and academically than the humanities and social sciences. More...
Advances in digital technology are changing the world of work. It has been estimated that more than 40% of human workers will be replaced by robots. This probably overstates the scale of displacement, but developments in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning will affect all sectors of the economy. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. International students make up the large majority of full-time students in many graduate science- and engineering-related programs, and their numbers have been rising much faster than the number of domestic students, according to a new report from the National Foundation for American Policy, a research organization focused on immigration and the economy. More...
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