A suddenly uncertain path to a diploma for some high school students has education officials scrambling to provide guidance to school districts in the aftermath of a ballot question that tossed the state’s MCAS test as a graduation requirement. “Following the election, we quickly have tried to get to work to try to think about … Read more
Katie Holmes has forcefully denied recent claims made by the Daily Mail that her daughter, Suri Cruise, has gained access to a substantial trust fund from her father, Tom Cruise. The Dawson’s Creek actress took to Instagram to call out the report as “completely false,” adding, “Daily Mail, you can stop making stuff up.” Holmes … Read more
Egypt’s reformed school curriculum is now teaching a more positive representation of Israel and peaceful coexistence, according to a report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), published in December. The report by IMPACT-se, a research and policy institute based in London and Tel Aviv, analyzed 350 textbooks … Read more
All countries also saw proficiency gaps between adults of different education levels. For example, in Singapore, tertiary-educated adults scored 48 points higher in literacy than those with upper secondary education, who in turn scored 59 points higher than those with less than upper secondary education. Singapore also observed that literacy proficiency started to decline at … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR: On the eve of Malaysia’s 67th Independence Day, Malaysian Chinese YouTuber Wabikong released a game-show video entitled Guess the Real Chinese (Malay Version) to wide acclaim. In the video, a blindfolded guest guessed which one of the five Mandarin-speaking participants was a Malaysian Chinese. The four Malay participants spoke Mandarin fluently and demonstrated … Read more
A brand new railway station is set to open in one of the UK’s most beautiful cities. Officials say it will improve connectivity for 1.8million customers. The infrastructure project is important because Cambridge will have many more people living in it in future years. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the Cambridge Southern Fringe have been … Read more
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the deadly Tesla Cybertruck crash that happened in Northern California last week. It left three young college students dead and another in critical condition. Right now, the California Highway Patrol is leading the crash investigation. We’ll see how far NHTSA takes it. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally … Read more
SINGAPORE: Twenty-four children at the Little Seeds Preschool branch at Calvary Baptist Church have fallen ill with gastroenteritis symptoms. Seven children were hospitalised. Of these, four have been discharged and the remaining three are in stable condition, said the Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) on Monday (Dec 2). … Read more
JOHOR BARU: A total of 16 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates in Johor are affected by the ongoing floods, says state executive councillor Aznan Tamin. The Johor education and information committee chairman said the candidates are from SMK Buloh Kasap in Segamat. “The oral examination, which began today (Dec 2), does not require the candidates … Read more
On Sunday, Romanians vote in crucial parliamentary elections, with polls showing hard-right parties on track to bag a third of the ballots, riding on the momentum created by Georgescu who surged in the polls out of nowhere last Sunday to secure a shock win. The stakes are high. An outright victory for the far-right presidential … Read more
