University of Manchester Goes Mobile with Blackboard Smartphone Apps Will Drive Student Engagement and Enhance Learning Support AMSTERDAM – 14 September, 2010 – Blackboard Inc.

YoungMinds announces shortlist for book award Throughout the summer young people from book groups, and schools have been reviewing books to whittle down a shortlist for the YoungMinds Book

Chris Shute was prompted after reading John Taylor Gatto to hold forth on assessment. He does so in his own inimitable and readable style. This extended article will

TED Talks TED.com week 08.09.2010. Sugata Mitra - Education Scientist There are some really great inputs on the weekly TED talks. Sugata Mitra's work is quite astonishing in illustrating

Given that schooling is completely comfortable in imposing itself  univited on children and young people during the daytime and then adding to the injustice sets about monopolising their

Some items from IALA (International Association for Learning Alternatives) News Autumn 2010 Linda Hammond-Darling on Choice Alternatives, the National Scene

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NEW STUDENTS SHOULD EXPECT TO OWE NEARLY £25k, PUSH SURVEY REVEALS 13.08.2010 The UK's largest survey of student finance, published today on Push.co.uk, reveals that students who started at

Introduction Children don't Start Wars demonstrates the way our capacity for empathy develops as we grow up and declines as we grow older, and discusses the implications of this

From Children and Young People By Neil Puffett Children & Young People Now 10 August 2010 The Department for Education (DfE) has moved to allay fears that a ban on the

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Contact: Wendy Priesnitz (416) 260-0303 or editor@LifeLearningMagazine.com Not Going Back to School is an Option It sounds like every kid’s dream: not to go back to school in September! But

14 September 2010 The Royal Institute of British Architects, London 9:30 – 2:00 Join leading figures from schools, colleges and government to debate how to make learning more playful.

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CSCY Global Childhood Studies Network of Researchers It may interest you to know that in 2009 the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of

Great news ... our very own Roland Meighan has just launched his own website.Its purpose is to make some of Roland's past research and other writings available

Britain's largest mobile learning initiative turns its attention to on-demand support for vocational learners and apprentices this summer. Trials taking place over the next 12 weeks will study

The Tall Ships Youth Trust’s 60m brig STAVROS S NIARCHOS arrives in London this Wednesday (14 July 2010) at the end of the 10th anniversary Voyage of Achievement,

Study shows Chile’s school voucher program increased graduation rates RENO, Nev. – With the effectiveness of school vouchers a hot topic of debate, researchers from the University of Nevada,

With thanks to David Gribble for this link PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2010 Oxfordshire, 23 - 27 July 2010 www.peacenewscamp.info Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace

“Anyone who thinks we are just shrinking what already exists on a personal computer simply The Future of 14-19 Vocational and Educational Training 21 July 2010, 11am- 1pm Campaign for

Sheffield Hallam Becomes First U.K. University to Go Mobile with Blackboard   New Apps Bring Courses and Campus Life to Mobile Devices   AMSTERDAM – 06 July, 2010 – Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq:

Charles Leadbeater went looking for new forms of education - in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where the world's poorest kids are finding new ways to learn. TED