Science Education

Payoffs of long-term investment in education research

Speakers emphasized that education research based on long-term funding has led to important payoffs for education policy and practice in such areas as resource…

BBSRC and EMBL-EBI welcome UK funds earmarked for major bioscience data infrastructure project

ELIXIR is a pan-European initiative that aims to operate a sustainable infrastructure for biological information in Europe. It will provide public access to…

Radiologists play key role in teaching physiology to medical students

“It is vital that medical schools provide first-rate physiology education for their students. We believe that radiologists have an important role to play in…

Research finds practicing retrieval is best tool for learning

“We continue to show that practicing retrieval, or testing yourself, is a powerful, robust tool for learning,” said Jeffrey D. Karpicke (pronounced CAR-picky),…

ESMT MBA introduces sustainability and technology management tracks

Germany’s business school ESMT European School of Management and Technology has strengthened the emphasis placed on technology management and sustainable…

Exclusions and Power Structures in the Wake of an Open Higher Education System

Since the 1990s there has a been a range of Swedish policy reforms calling for Swedish higher education to be more open, flexible and accessible.New governanceIn particular, notable importance was placed on distance and IT-based education. While the issue of access to higher education has long been viewed as an important factor in educational policy, a partly new approach to governance took shape during the 1990s and beyond….

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