Science Education

Children may be born with some ability to perform basic arithmetic, Harvard research suggests

Psychologists at Harvard University have found that five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without the formal education or language to express this knowledge in words. The discovery of these inborn skills among preschoolers could point the way to new teaching techniques, making arithmetic easier and more pleasant for elementary school children.

Radio amateurs worldwide are being asked to help collect data from the student-built SSETI Express satellite, due to be placed in orbit on 27 September. To encourage them, ESA’s Education department has organised two competitions and is supplying free downloadable software.

“We will be happy to receive all the help we can, particularly during the early operations phase,” says SSETI Express Project Manager, Neil Melville. “If a radio amateur receives a signal from SSETI Express

A leading educationalist is criticising new United Nations (UN) proposals to eliminate all fees in state primary schools globally to meet its goal of universal primary education by 2015.

Professor James Tooley, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, says the UN, which is placing particular emphasis on those regions doing worse at moving towards ’education for all’, namely sub-Saharan Afria and South Asia, is “backing the wrong horse”.

Prof Tooley makes his c

A new venture, Bio Life Technical, including leading researchers within Nanotechnology and Personalized Healthcare, such as Professor Chris Toumazou and Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub of Imperial College, London, is being launched in London, UK providing independent due diligence services to investors, globally. Bio Life Technical is structured to aid venture capital groups, investment banks, business angels and institutional investors by providing a single contact point and managing the technical du

One of the country’s leading centres for social work research is launching a new BA in Social Work.

The new degree will be offered at the University of East Anglia from September 2006, helping to tackle the current national and local shortage of trained social workers.

There will be 27 places available on the full-time three-year course and each comes with an automatic, non-means tested bursary of £2500 per year, funded by the General Social Care Council.

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Wirtschaftliche Aspekte werden in der Medizin stets wichtiger: Professionelles Personalmanagement, Kosten-, Liquiditäts- oder Qualitätsmanagement – immer mehr betriebswirtschaftliche Komponenten fließen in die täglichen Aufgaben eines Klinik- und niedergelassenen Arztes ein. Im Medizinstudium sind jedoch strategische Führungsaufgaben und unternehmerisches Handeln praktisch kein Thema. Eine Zusatzqualifikation in angewandter Ökonomie zum Master of Business Administration, kurz MBA, kann Abhilfe s