A global education is one that incorporates learning about the cultures, geographies, histories, and current issues of all the world’s regions. It emphasizes the interconnectedness and diversity of peoples and histories.
Admissions are open at The University of Birmingham Dubai for their BSc Psychology program. The program curriculum spans modern psychological theory and application, including social psychology, human neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and child development.
For September 2024 entry, scholarships of up to 30% to all students based on academic performance is being offered by the university.(Official Website)
A broad spectrum of human behaviors and cognitive processes, from basic activities like feeding to more intricate abilities such as language and social interactions, are covered in the program.
The program begins with foundational modules in psychology, research methods, and related skills in the first two years, followed by advanced specialist modules in the final year, providing cutting-edge insights into selected psychological areas.
The Psychology degree is designed with a common curriculum covering all fundamental aspects of modern psychology. Additionally, in the third year, students can choose from various specialist modules, enabling them to concentrate on advanced areas at the field’s cutting edge.
Course dates: September 2024
Entry Requirements: 75-85% from Standard 12 for CBSE passouts.
Application process: Applications for September 2024 are open. There is no application fee.
Tuition: The annual tuition fee for 2024 entry is AED 126,309 (USD 35,000 appx.) per year of study and can be paid in installments.
Scholarship: Scholarship options are designed to benefit all students and the financial rewards can be carried forward through the entire program across the foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
For September 2024 entry, scholarships of up to 30% to all students based on academic performance if being offered by the university, mentioned the official press release.
For more information regarding the program, scholarship, and other details regarding the admission procedure, visit the official website of The University of Birmingham Dubai.
The S P Jain Group announced its acquisition of California Miramar University (CMU), marking a strategic expansion into the United States.
At the San Jose location, CMU will offer cutting-edge undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Artificial Intelligence, including an MBA and MS in Artificial Intelligence.(File Photo / Reuters)
Through the acquisition, students have the opportunity to study across campuses in Singapore, Dubai, Sydney, India, London, and the United States. Additionally, students will have the option to graduate with a US degree.
At the San Jose location, CMU will offer cutting-edge undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Artificial Intelligence, including an MBA and MS in Artificial Intelligence. These programs are accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) and approved by the US Department of Education. Graduating students will be eligible to apply for Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT).
The new CMU campus, strategically located in San Jose, Silicon Valley, offers proximity to world-leading tech companies, providing students with opportunities for industry engagement and hands-on experience in AI and related fields. Students gain access to cutting-edge AI tools and technologies, enhancing both their learning experience and job placement prospects. These benefits extend to S P Jain students as well, informed S P Jain Group.
S P Jain Group and CMU also introduced groundbreaking AI tutor technology. Developed in Silicon Valley, this AI tutor works alongside expert faculty to deliver a comprehensive educational experience and also offers 24/7 support tailored to each student’s needs, creating customised education plans, providing instant feedback, and bridging the gap between academic learning and industry requirements, mentioned the official press release.
“This acquisition marks a pivotal moment in our global education strategy. By bringing CMU into the S P Jain family, we’re not just expanding our geographical reach; we’re embracing the innovation hub of Silicon Valley and strengthening our commitment to AI-driven education,” said Nitish Jain, President of S P Jain Group.
“Joining forces with the S P Jain Group opens up exciting possibilities for our students and faculty. Our shared vision of AI-first education and global perspectives will create unparalleled opportunities for the next generation of leaders,” said Dr Chitpasong Vazquez, President and CAO of California Miramar University.
For more information about the new programs and admissions, visit the official website.
Tripura schools have been reopened on Tuesday after a week closure due to flood. Those schools where relief camps are still functioning are not reopened yet.
Nearly a week after all educational institutions were declared closed due to flood caused by incessant rainfall, the Tripura schools have been reopened on Tuesday except those schools where relief camps are still functioning.
Educational institutions reopened in Tripura after a week closure due to flood
” All the Schools (Govt., Govt. Aided Schools, Privately Managed Schools, Schools under TTAADC, Madrasas etc.) were declared closed vide Memo No. F. 25(1-1)SE/VJ/2022(Part-1) dated 21/08/2024 and Memorandum of even No. dated 22/08/2024 due to unprecedented flood Situation across the state.
Now, it has been decided by the Education (School) Department ghat all schools of the state will re-open from 27/08/2024 except the schools where relief camps are in operation”, reads the notification signed by
Education (School) Department Director Nripendra Chandra Sharma recently.
Tripura witnessed incessant rainfall since August 19 that resulted in severe flood and landslides. Till now, the flood claimed lives of 26 people, injured two and left one missing.
Currently, over 70,000 persons are sheltered at 471 relief camps in the state where they are being provided with food, drinking water, medical help by the administration.
Well, the names they shared included a slate of unapologetic progressives mostly drawn from the ranks of the teachers unions, academe, and advocacy. Meanwhile, the handful of putative “conservatives” were a mix of New York Times Republicans and folks who’d never once crossed my radar. The proposed co-chair was a long-retired, pretty obscure, semi-progressive Republican ex-governor from a blue state.
Now, this kind of tokenism might suffice if the goal is to provide political “cover” and issue a press release that includes names from the right and the left. But box-checking inclusion doesn’t actually supply insight into disagreements, surface hidden points of agreement, or buy credibility with a right-leaning audience. Faux bipartisanship actually sets you back by fueling the right’s cynical sense that we’re being disingenuously played yet again.
So I suggested adding a few people whom I regard as serious and more representative of right-leaning sentiment (spanning both the populist and more traditional varietals). I noted that there were places where one could easily find more such candidates, like the Heritage Foundation, Goldwater Institute, Hoover Institution, or Texas Public Policy Foundation. In response, I was frostily informed that they were seeking participants with “deep” expertise. I shrugged and just said that I was pretty confident that the options I’d mentioned were as knowledgeable about this stuff as many of the names already on their list. (That observation was not warmly received.)
This whole exchange was painfully familiar. There’s a decades-long dance in education in which funders or advocates identify a clutch of 40-yard-line Republicans and then pat themselves on the back for their bipartisanship and inclusiveness. Again and again, I’ve had a version of this conversation with funders and advocates who appear to think I count as a hard-core right-winger (people who know me and know much about the contemporary right find this amusing). I tell these good folks that they may imagine that I’m on the right’s 3-yard-line, but hard-edged right-wingers think I’m closer to the 25, or the 30. I don’t generally get the sense that they believe me.
Given the world they inhabit, I kind of get it. After all, as I’ve said many times, education is odd in that someone can support gun control, higher taxes, and abortion rights and still get labeled “right-wing” if they embrace school choice or oppose DEI mandates. The education community leans so far left that, for many of education’s smart set, any milquetoast Republican (or even a mildly heterodox Democrat) can seem right-wing enough. That’s how you end up with major “nonpartisan” organizations hosting education briefings for Congressional staff in which the left is represented by an Elizabeth Warren staffer . . . and the “right” by a former Obama official. (In the immortal words of Dave Barry: “I’m not making this up.”)
The opportunity to meet exceptional and inspiring teachers and students from diverse countries and age groups on a daily basis.
Best work trip/worst work trip?
My best work trip was a long weekend conference in Bali—an incredible experience. On the other hand, I’ve had my share of worst trips: from delays to overnight stays in deserted airports, and the scramble to find a hotel when everything is booked.
If you could learn a language instantly, which would you pick and why?
I would love to learn Mandarin. It’s notoriously difficult to master, so learning it instantly would be fantastic. Plus, it’s incredibly useful, especially when living in Asia.
What motivates you to get up in the morning?
Knowing that I get to interact with the school community. Our teachers are deeply passionate about providing the best possible education and care for our students. Meeting with parents and witnessing our students thrive in the classroom, on the sports field, or during playground activities is such a privilege.
Champion/cheerleader we should all follow and why?
I’m a big fan of the late Sir Ken Robinson, and I also admire Professor John Hattie for their impactful work in education.
Best international education conference and why?
There are several great education conferences around the world that offer valuable insights and networking opportunities – I am not sure I can pick just one.
Worst conference food/beverage experience?
Horse’s milk in Kazakhstan. The food was excellent, but horse’s and camel’s milk are definitely acquired tastes.
Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector?
I recommend The Harvard Edcast and The Edtech Podcast for anyone in the education sector.
Describe a project or initiative you’re currently working on that excites you.
The upcoming opening of The Perse School in Singapore in January. It’s a supremely challenging project, but even more exciting!
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Dive Brief:
Attacks on or discrimination against people because of their Zionist beliefs could violate New York University’s updated student nondiscrimination and anti-harassment guidance, drawing free speech concerns from some faculty members.
On Aug. 22, university administrators notified students and faculty that NYU’s student conduct guidelines had been amended to add examples of anti-Zionist behavior as misconduct. Examples include using or disseminating tropes about Zionists and denying Zionists entry from open events and NYU activities.
“Using code words, like ‘Zionist,’ does not eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the [nondiscrimination and anti-harassment] Policy,” the updated document says. “For many Jewish people, Zionism is a part of their Jewish identity.”
Dive Insight:
In a joint Thursday statement, NYU Provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph said the update “provides additional examples and clarity about our existing policies” and is geared toward setting “a more productive tone” for the new academic year.
The new language does not change the university’s policies and is not intended to stifle speech, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said Tuesday.
“This is not the ‘weaponization’ of a word — it is providing further guidance to our community about how our policies apply in different circumstances,” he said in a statement. The policy “focuses on exclusionary or harassing conduct against individuals, not scholarly or public debate and commentary on particular countries or their specific policies or actions.”
It is unclear if NYU administrators consulted the university’s faculty and staff as part of the update. The university did not immediately respond to additional questions Tuesday.
NYU’s chapter of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine decried the university’s updated harassment policy in a Sunday press release, arguing the policy “equates criticism of Zionism with discrimination against Jewish people.”
“The new guidance implies that any nationalist political ideology (Hindu nationalism, Christian nationalism, etc.) that is integrated into some members of that group’s understanding of their own racial or ethnic identity should be entitled to civil rights protections,” NYU FSJP said. “This is a disturbing development that will legitimize far-right and ethnonationalist ideologies under the guise of protecting students from racial discrimination.”
NYU FSJP also took issue with what the group called the policy’s “equation of Zionism with Jewish identity.”
The policy comes after a fraught semester at NYU. In late April, police cleared an encampment on the university’s campusin which protesters called for NYU to divest from companies that do business with Israel, including weapons manufacturers. At the time, university officials said they called in police over safety issues and after learning of reports of antisemitic incidents. Law enforcement arrested over 100 people, according to news reports.
The debate over what constitutes antisemitism has been at the heart of campus tensions surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Some of the best-known guidance comes from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which adopted a working definition of antisemitism in 2016.It says that criticism of Israel “similar to that leveled against any other country” does not rise to antisemitism.
But as examples of possible antisemitic acts, the IHRA included arguing that “the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and comparing contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
The American Civil Liberties Union has pushed back on the use of IHRA’s definition to enforce civil rights protections, arguing that the examples include protected speech critical of Israel and its policies. And over 100 civil society and humanitarian organizations last year urged the United Nations to not adopt the definition over similar concerns.
Many U.S. Jewish organizations with ties to Israel have embraced the definition. Earlier this year, a coalition of such groups wrote to House lawmakers expressing support for the widespread adoption of the definition, though they noted its purpose is to inform “and not enforce.”
Groups supporting the definition include the American Jewish Committee, which said the IHRA’s wording “leaves a wide berth for sharp and vigorous criticism of Israel’s government and policies.”
“It is a ‘non-legally binding’ definition intended to guide and educate,” the group says on its website. “It is not a means to squelch debate or free speech, and those who misuse it in this way should be opposed.”
The working definition is used in the U.S., including by the State Department, as well as some state and local governments.
NYU adopted the IHRA’s definition in 2020, a decision which NYU FSJP said laid the groundwork for the university’s updated antidiscrimination language.
“The Association for Jewish Studies has called on universities to resist campaigns to adopt a single definition of antisemitism, like the one enshrined in IHRA, since Jewish studies scholars, organizations and communities see the relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism in vastly different ways,” the group said. “Yet the administration of NYU has flatly ignored all of these warnings.”
One of the authors of the IHRA’s definition, Kenneth Stern, said in a February op-ed for The Boston Globe that his work was never intended to be applied to college campuses and warned against its use as “a definition-turned-speech code.”
Some Jewish groups have increasingly pushed lawmakers and universities to adopt the definition “to chill or suppress much pro-Palestinian speech,” he wrote. “But it was never intended to be weaponized to muzzle campus free speech.”
Stern, who is also oversees at Bard College’s Center for the Study of Hate, said his work was designed primarily for data collection on antisemitism among countries, and he called on colleges to “mine the expertise of the faculty” to teach students about navigating conflict and combating hate.
“When we use the term antisemitism so expansively, it’s emptied of its meaning, harming our ability to confront it,” he wrote.
WASHINGTON (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —Ello, developer of the world’s most advanced AI reading app, will be donating iPads, hundreds of early-age children’s books, and free access to the Ello app at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Children’s National Hospital to help support children hospitalized during their long-term care. In addition to books, this initiative includes literacy activities to help children’s learning journey and bring joy to their lives during their hospital stay.
Learning loss for chronically ill children while they are hospitalized is a topic that often doesn’t get a lot of attention. According to a report from the American Association of Pediatrics, “Many chronic disorders require frequent hospitalizations, resulting in loss of school days and poor academic achievement. The average time students with multiple disabilities are absent from school is 28.9 days each time they are hospitalized.”
“Our young patients in long-term care need a lot of support, including literacy support, so they don’t fall behind while they’re not in the classroom. Ello’s donation will give them the chance to read fun, engaging stories to lift their spirits while working on their literacy skills during their hospital stay,” said Katie Wallace, child life coordinator, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Ello’s co-founder Dr. Elizabeth Adams, a Licensed Clinical Child Psychologist who supported families through therapy and clinical work before starting Ello, will be meeting with families and representatives from the hospital’s Child Life Services team to donate iPads and books along with unlimited access to the Ello app.
“Early in my career working at hospitals, I noticed this loss of learning among young patients, especially in oncology and other specialties where the children are absent for long periods from their peers and school environment,” said Dr. Adams, co-founder and CXO of Ello. “I’m thrilled that Ello can be part of a solution for these patients and their families, to help with the literacy support they need while they are hospitalized while also giving them fun, engaging books and activities to do to break up very long days.”
Elizabeth brings a wealth of experience and expertise to Ello and the company is making significant strides in the field of education technology. She has dedicated her professional life to assessing, diagnosing, and treating children with developmental differences. Her research has included a focus on parent stress and support, cognitive and academic development, and language and literacy acquisition, particularly for children with hearing loss. During her clinical internship at Children’s National Hospital, she witnessed firsthand the impact of frequent chronic and long-term hospitalizations on children’s learning loss. This experience profoundly influenced her career path and commitment to child development which led to her creating edtech startup, Ello. Since founding Ello, Elizabeth was included on the Inc. 2024 Female Founders 250 List for growing revenue 265 percent and Ello’s subscriber base 146 percent to address childhood illiteracy with an AI powered coaching platform.
Elizabeth met her co-founders Tom Sayer and Catalin Moreno Voss through their shared passion for child development and learning. Together, they embarked on an unusual journey for a Silicon Valley outsider, merging Elizabeth’s extensive experience in traditional settings with Tom and Catalin’s tech expertise. Their collaborative vision led to the creation of the Public Benefits Corporation, Ello, and an AI-powered reading tutor designed to support children’s literacy development.
Since its inception in 2020, Ello has grown exponentially, serving tens of thousands of children and earned a spot as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2024. Last summer, the company successfully raised a Series A round of funding and expanded its team to 40 members globally, with offices in Brazil, New York, and San Francisco.
About Ello Ello is helping to solve childhood illiteracy by scaling 1:1 instruction to maximize the learning potential of all children, regardless of resources. Its first product is the world’s most advanced reading companion, powered by proprietary speech recognition and generative AI. It listens, understands, and engages with children to teach them critical reading skills as they read out loud. Ello is founded by a team of experts in education, childhood development and artificial intelligence, and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Goodwater, Project A and Homebrew. Learn more at https://ello.com.
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