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2013-12-10 15:01:25     UK School Children Will Soon Learn Coding and Use 3D Printers

http://thenextweb.com/...ew-school-curriculum-proposals/#...

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2013-02-09 13:56:19     The Decision to Leave Academia: A Dialogue with Chris Humphrey of Jobs on Toast | The Professor Is In

http://theprofessorisin.com/...s-humphreys-of-jobs-on-toast/

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

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2014-06-14 12:34:04     Universities in the United Kingdom - Times Higher Education

http://uk-universities.timeshighereducation.co.uk/#main

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2011-12-19 16:07:30     USF-AWB objectives

http://univ-sf.org/EN/Objectives.htm

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2014-03-27 07:29:41     Pop Up Learning Space | Visual.ly

http://visual.ly/pop-learning-space

Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternat... environments and equip young people with 21st Century sk... skills for life, not for more school. Vision: Elastic Po... = alternative learning environments 21st century edutain... culture.

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2014-03-27 07:30:16     Technology and Learning | Visual.ly

http://visual.ly/technology-and-learning

Technology has a plethora of uses and has long been a u... students of today are adept at using technology so utili... education is beneficial. This infographic examines how t... useful tool and can be a useful aid in the learning process.

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2012-11-07 09:17:16     Welsh Government | Wales first in the world to legislate for play

http://wales.gov.uk/...=8DEDF89C91F0408C5A9748F0894C4824?...

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

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2012-09-21 08:09:18     In Sweden, A School With No Classrooms | Blog on Academic Earth

http://www.academicearth.org/...chool-with-no-classrooms?...

Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med

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2012-07-26 18:11:18     BBC News - Top US universities put their reputations online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589

This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ...
Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ...
Sounding li

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2012-07-17 17:48:53     BBC News - UK university joins US online partnership

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18857999

Edinburgh University is to be the first UK institution t... influential US-based online university project.
Edinburgh is part of a major expansion in the Coursera p ...
The online platform was set up this year with content fr ...

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2012-08-02 22:23:55     BBC News - Universities contribute £3.3bn to UK economy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19014531

Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
Analysis by

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2012-08-04 12:15:57     BBC News - Olympics 'dominated by privately educated'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19109724

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said.
Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ...
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ...
He said it meant half of Great Britain

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2013-01-30 12:52:39     BBC News - Computer science part of English Baccalaureate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21261442

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England.
It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

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2013-02-07 09:18:14     BBC News - Postgraduate courses 'social mobility barrier'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21357311

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2015-05-07 18:30:14     School criticised for publicly ranking GCSE pupils - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32624101

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2013-03-09 16:47:04     BBC News - EU Commission launches 'grand coalition' to tackle IT shortage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21668166

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

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2015-10-13 14:35:13     'Too hot to be an engineer' - women mark Ada Lovelace Day - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34359936

Britons in particular have an attitude problem to address as well.
"People easily say, 'I'm terrible at maths,' or 'I'm awful at numbers.' If you said that kind of thing in India people would look at you funny," she said.
"It's like saying, 'Oh, I can't

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2011-01-06 20:44:20     BBC News - Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700

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2012-08-16 07:13:45     BBC News - Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18687247#?utm_source=t...

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

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2014-01-04 18:06:46     Lyndsey Scott, A Model And Coder - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/...ott-model-and-coder-2014-1

As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ...
Despite her success on the runway, Lyn

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2012-01-12 14:16:02     Computing at School :: About Us

http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/index.php?id=about-us

The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

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2016-04-18 12:53:27     Context Free Art:About - Context Free Art

http://www.contextfreeart.org/medi.../Context_Free_Art:About

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

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2012-04-10 11:16:12     Undergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise for Fourth Straight Year — CRA Taulbee Report

http://www.cra.org/...urth-straight-year-cra-taulbee-report/

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2012-06-03 13:34:01     DailyDOOH » Blog Archive » LocaModa Takes Wiffiti To The Classroom

http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/63978

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2012-07-23 11:45:06     Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=5388#follow

Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary Unive... (QMUL). It’s possible that universities may have to co... hard times, so what’s wrong?
What’s wrong is that the victims are being selected in ...

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2012-06-05 19:31:12     Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity | Education News

http://www.educationnews.org/...eing-outwitted-by-stupidity/

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2012-06-05 19:27:45     Number of Homeschoolers Growing Nationwide | Education News

http://www.educationnews.org/...choolers-growing-nationwide/

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2012-08-16 07:14:29     elearnspace › MOOCs are really a platform

http://www.elearnspace.org/b.../moocs-are-really-a-platform/

Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO

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2012-01-12 10:35:08     Mike Bloomberg Is A Smart Businessman, That's Why He's Learning To Code | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

http://www.fastcoexist.com/...thats-why-hes-learning-to-code

Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh

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2011-05-21 09:13:49     The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

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