education

Society

Indian Teacher Wins $1M Global Prize, Gives Away Half to Runners Up; UK Math Teacher Gets Covid Hero Prize

Ranjitsinh Disale who won this year's Global Teacher Prize has given half of his prize money to the runners-up of the competition

Dec 3, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

Human Rights

LA Times Reporter Expelled for Reporting on Pro-Mother Tongue Protests in China's Inner Mongolia

The LA Times journalist was escorted out of the city while she was reporting on the recent protests in China's Inner Mongolia

Sep 4, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Society

Trump Pushes US Universities To Reopen

US President Donald Trump has urged universities to reopen their campuses, despite reports of Covid-19 cluster outbreaks among students across the country

Aug 21, 2020

By IANS

Society

Australia's Monash University Ranks 6th Globally in Times Higher Education Golden Age Rankings 2020

In just over 60 years, Monash University has grown to become the largest university in Australia, said the President of of Monash University, Professor Margaret Gardner AC

Jun 25, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

Society

Myanmar Doctor Jailed for Criticizing Buddhist Monks Opposing Sex Education in Schools

Dr Kyaw Win Thant was arrested in May after he apologized for his social media ranting to the Buddhist monks

Jun 6, 2020

By Parwinder Sandhu

Facebook

Technology

Google faces lawsuit for spying on millions of school kids without their knowledge

Hector Balderas New Mexico's attorney general filed a lawsuit against the tech giants Google for secretly monitoring children

Feb 22, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

Business

Facebook invests in Indian education start-up Unacademy

Facebook invests in the Indian edtech start-up Unacademy, Ajit Mohan, Vice President says the company is an ally for India's economic growth

Feb 19, 2020

By IANS

Facebook

Politics

US Elections 2020: What are the Democrats and Republicans focusing on?

From student loans, climate change and taxes to legal marijuana, US presidential aspirants are focusing on a number of issues

Feb 10, 2020

By Parvathy Rajagopal

Health

Ability to focus on studies affected by excessive use of internet, says study

The study said that this effect was magnified by the growing feelings of loneliness that was caused by the use of digital technology

Jan 19, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

Society

Singapore education: PSLE results to be released on November 21

Singapore students will receive their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results for 2019 next Thursday

Nov 14, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

New initiative between EU & Singapore set to inspire more scientific collaboration

Society

New opportunities unfold for Singaporean scientists to join ERC team in Europe

Top researchers from the National Research Foundation Singapore encouraged to gain experience in ERC teams in Europe

Oct 8, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NTU NUS

School children practice anti-earthquake skill in Taipei

Society

Angry parents approach police as their 12-year-old son caned in school without informing them

A primary school is currently facing police investigation after they caned a pupil without informing his parents as per regulations

Sep 6, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

NUS study disproves old belief, says apes too follow each other's gaze like humans

The researchers from the National University of Singapore and two more institutions conducted a new study to find similarities between human and apes gaze.

Sep 4, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NUS

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Technology

This NUS developed mobile app helps alumni achieve career goals

NUS career+ mobile application developed by the university and JobTech Pte Ltd is believed to become a booster in terms of achieving career goals.

Aug 31, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NUS Artificial intelligence

CyberSecurity

Malicious cyber threat forced this US university to shut down its IT services

The malicious cyber threat affected email services, phone lines and online programs that university students use to submit work as well as the website.

Aug 28, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

Companies

Automation Anywhere University leading the way to reskill and ready the workforce for automation future

Company has already trained 350,000 students and professionals as organizations adopt automation.

Aug 27, 2019

By IBTimes SG Desk

Society

National Day Rally: PM Lee talks about affordable pre-school education

On National Dat Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong talked about how the government is planning for the affordable preschool education for Singaporeans.

Aug 18, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder