Education

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly half of teenagers are worried about having children and many lack knowledge about their reproductive health, find two new studies by University College London researchers. The studies, published in Human Fertility and Health Education Journal, used survey results from 931 students in England aged 16 to 18,…

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Access to digital education will be a gamechanger in unlocking India’s economic potential as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) could provide a unique advantage for people here, Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of edtech platform Coursera, said on Friday.There is a huge reskilling opportunity for generative AI, which can close the gap between average and high performers, and reshape the world to make it a more equal place, Maggioncalda said. “For this to happen, people need access to education,” he added.Elevate Your Tech…

Children gathered at First Nations University of Canada in Regina Thursday watched in awe as astronaut Jeremy Hansen unveiled the patch, designed by an Indigenous artist, that he will wear as the first Canadian to fly to the moon.Hansen, who is from London, Ont., is one of four crew members set to travel around the moon during the Artemis ll mission, which is expected to embark as soon as September 2025.He spoke at Thursday's event about how time he has spent with Indigenous elders has shaped his beliefs and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Gaza's education system has suffered significantly since Israel's bombardment and assault on the strip began. Last month, Israel blew up Gaza's last standing university, Al-Israa University. In the past four months, all or parts of Gaza's 12 universities have been bombed and mostly destroyed. Approximately 378…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ]On 28 October 2003, Barcelona became the backdrop for a tragic incident that would reverberate across the Spanish port city and beyond. Leaving his school that Tuesday afternoon, 15-year-old Ronny Tapias was shot dead by a Barcelona gang that mistakenly identified him as a member of a rival clan. Warring factions…

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The Supreme Court of the United States ruling last year that colleges and universities can no longer take race and ethnicity into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission delivered a significant blow to diversity efforts on campuses nationwide. This ruling applies to medical education, where the lack of a diverse physician workforce is a known factor that leads to health care inequalities.Without affirmative action, how can we recruit the next generation of physicians to care for people from…

"ChatGPT and GPT-4 consistently outperformed the majority of students who answered each individual item in the NAEP science assessments," write Xiaoming Zhai of the University of Georgia, and colleagues at the University's AI4STEM Education Center, and at the University of Alabama's College of Education, in a paper published this week on the arXiv pre-print server, "Can Generative Ai And Chatgpt Outperform Humans On Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks In Science?"Also: AI in 2023: A year of breakthroughs that…