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Canada’s federal budget includes plans to curb predatory lending, with proposals to amend the Criminal Code to reduce the legal amount of interest lenders are allowed to charge. Effective annual interest rates are capped at 60% under the code, as they have been since 1980. However, under some province exemptions, such as in the case of payday loans of […]
Google has updated numerous education-focused services to help streamline teachers’ workflow and enhance student learning. Google Classroom’s Practice Sets tool, which creates and distributes interactive problem sets, will now offer interactive questions for YouTube videos, enabling students to be graded in real-time. This feature is expected to reduce the need to create video quizzes and […]
South African educational franchises offering after-school or supplementary tutoring services have some of the lowest initial fees in the local franchise market but often charge ongoing royalties more than double those charged in other sectors. Most require little or no prior teaching experience, and businesses can buy into a brand, secure intellectual property and materials […]
As the latest AI platform, ChatGPT is hailed as a promising tool for research and education but also poses potential challenges related to academic honesty and plagiarism. To address these, a study published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International, written with the involvement of academics from Plymouth Marjon University and the University of Plymouth, […]
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has died aged 94, according to a statement from the company. Moore was part of the group dubbed the “traitorous eight” who founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, described by Intel as a tech “incubator” for Silicon Valley start-ups including AMD. He moved on to found Intel with Robert Noyce in […]
Bill Gates, Microsoft’s former CEO, believes artificial intelligence (AI) is a technological breakthrough on par with the PC. Gates recently stated in an interview with MIT Technology Review that AI is the second revolutionary technology he’s seen in his lifetime, with the PC being the first. Gates believes that AI will transform a wide range […]
Thousands of students in the US who took out private loans to attend for-profit colleges that later shut down or were found guilty of misconduct cannot obtain debt relief following a recent $6bn settlement. Former students who had taken government loans were granted automatic loan cancellation, but those who borrowed from private lenders were ineligible for […]
The Algorithm PK, an educational technology organization, has partnered with The Tech Academy, USA, to offer affordable coding bootcamps in Pakistan. The bootcamps are designed for beginners and will provide students with a comprehensive technology education covering coding languages and frameworks to project management and job placement training. The Tech Academy has trained thousands of […]
On March 21, the international community celebrated the International Day of Forests. The UN General Assembly declared it to raise awareness of the importance of forests, which account for 31% of Earth’s land surface area. Forests and trees help to combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and provide habitats for 80% of species on […]
Unregulated college and boot camp partnerships that offer short-term tech boot camps are causing alarm bells to sound about their validity, as students are left with no assurances that their education meets certain standards, according to a report from the Student Borrower Protection Center seen by Hechinger Report. Staff at colleges simply add their name […]
