education

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

national university of singapore nanoelectronics converter

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

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General (fourth from right) and Professor Ling San, NTU Provost and Vice President (Academic) (centre), flanked by NTU professors and WHO officials.

Health

NTU joins WHO efforts to promote digital health and education across the globe

NTU's CePHaS is designated as WHO's first Collaborating Centre to promote digital health and education.

Jul 3, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NTU

Society

NUS and NTU are Asia's top universities, reveals new QS World University Rankings

MIT, Stanford University and Harvard University named as top three institutions, NUS and NTU become Asia's top universities.

Jun 19, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NTU NUS

Health

NTU research finds 34% of eczema Apps fail to meet global standards or guidelines

NTU found that eczema management apps have info which is inconsistent with international guidelines and mainstream therapies.

Jun 11, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NTU

Society

After peeping Tom incident, NUS announces stricter punishment for any sexual misconduct

The Review Committee of the National University of Singapore presents tougher punishments for offenders of sexual misconduct cases.

Jun 11, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NUS

Technology

NUS researchers claim harnessing AI to improve cognitive training

A pilot study was conducted by NUS researchers showed a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platform known as CURATE.AI that can improve cognitive performance.

May 25, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NUS Artificial intelligence

Technology

Singaporeans are most digitally advanced, willing to adopt next-gen technology anytime

Singaporeans are among the most digitally advanced in the world says new global industry report, published by Verint Systems.

May 23, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Society

Singapore local school graduates to get tamper-resistant digital certificates

There are plans to provide digital certificates to those students who had already graduated from their schools in previous years.

May 3, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Health

NUS researchers unveil new precision medicine techniques to treat cancer

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have long been exploring and innovating precision medicine techniques to treat cancer with more efficiency.

Apr 19, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NUS Artificial intelligence

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