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European Children's Travelling Language Library
London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children's Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success. » MORE
Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning
St. Albans (UK), January 2012 - Xirrus, a provider of high-performance wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200 eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility. » MORE
UK Education Funding Falls at Fastest Rate Since 1950s
London (UK), November 2011 - Public spending on education in the UK is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, according to a report released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report says the biggest challenges ahead are for early-years education, youth services, and sixteen-nineteen education, where spending is set to fall by around twenty percent in real terms. » MORE
Non-Traditional Education for Non-Traditional Students
Norcross, GA (USA), November 2011 - With the hope of becoming the best in the world, world-class amateur athletes are devoted to their sport. So when do these athletes plan for life after sports, and what happens when it's time to turn in the uniform or hang up the skates? » MORE
Training to Improve Educator Effectiveness
Duluth, GA (USA), November 2011 - ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET-approved, nationally accredited, distance-training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care and education workforce, offers educators a new course for stress management. » MORE
How Do You Identify Games for the Classroom?
Copenhagen (DK), November 2011 - "Important Lessons from the Last Ten Years with Game-Based Learning" is the title of the OEB contribution of Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen. He is CEO of Serious Games Interactive in Denmark, a company that develops serious game, simulations, and virtual worlds with graphics that are able to stand up to other commercial computer games. Their solutions have explicit learning objectives and are developed with attention to the special needs of clients and users. » MORE
Intersection between Technology and Creativity in Music
Rome (I), November 2011 - The OEB session "Social Sounds for Peer Education" aims to give an overview of how digital-technology applications have changed music education, creation, and production. Andrea Pozzi, marketing and communication manager of MidiWare is also in charge of managing all MidiWare activities relating to their European educational projects. MidiWare provides support to music teachers, schools, conservatories, and other important European Institutions. As a musician, Andrea plays bass in a band that is signed to an Italian record company. » MORE
Don't Let Bullying Destroy the Lives of Kids
New York, NY (USA), November 2011 - As an openly gay young man, Tommy Walser, currently a New York University Law School student, watched in shock and anger as it seemed like every week a new suicide was being committed due to bullying and cyber-bullying. Enter The Bullying Academy, which Walser created as a free online resource to help parents, students, and teachers deal with the dangers associated with bullying and cyber-bullying. » MORE
Student Success Gets Boost from Resiliency Education App
Arlington, VA/San Francisco, CA (USA), October 2011 - Teen Wellness, an online app that helps students improve resiliency skills, is now integrated into Naviance, the leading provider of measurable student-success solutions for K-12 schools and districts, through Naviance Succeed®. This integration will allow school staff and administrators to provide holistic academic, career, and emotional support to students using a single, integrated platform. » MORE
Romania Training Centres Equipped with Sanako Study Labs
Turku (FI), October 2011 - The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports has equipped two hundred of its teacher-training centres with Sanako Study 1200 language labs - one hundred for English and the other hundred for French. Teacher training on using the new language labs will take place between November 2011 and April 2013. Nine thousand teachers will be trained during this period. » MORE
