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Study International | February 26, 2020

The rising cost of higher education has hit many hard – and the result? Many are swimming in student loan debt across all corners of the world. In the US, some 45 million Americans collectively owe US$1.6 trillion student debt. It’s a national crisis and a think-tank’s recent findings suggest there is one way Americans would this to be solved: Making tuition free at public colleges and universities for all US students. Among US adults surveyed, 63 percent support tuition-free p...

AWS | May 11, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SXSW EDU collaborate to issue a challenge, the edtech world. Blast Learning helps students remember information they learned, while identifying and filling in knowledge gaps.

Education Technology

businesswire | December 07, 2020

IHRDC recently delivered two major virtual learning programs for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) a two-week program for 400 Management Graduate Trainees and an eight-week program for 650 Technical Graduate Trainees. The need was stated by Fatima Suraj Yakubu, NNPC’s General Manager Talent, “We have 1,050 recent graduates, isolated at home because of Covid.19, who need to develop strong backgrounds in job-related oil and gas industry topics. We asked ...

NWEA | August 04, 2020

NWEA, a not-for-profit provider of assessment solutions, released today projections that current school closures due to the COVID-19 global pandemic could result in substantially lower achievement levels for students. The forecasts leveraged previous NWEA research on summer learning loss (also known as summer slide) and used a national sample of over five million students in grades 3-8 who took MAP® Growth™ assessments to estimate potential impacts of the COVID-19 related school closur...