How do parents help their children earn more? Parents understandably want to offer their children the best possible chances in life. But what are they actually transmitting and how?
Researcher: Universities have become assembly lines that make us dumber than we need to be COMMENT: Scientific ideals have been replaced by market mechanisms. Knowledge has become a commodity, and the university is like any other profit-driven company, a researcher writes.
How do we promote gender equity in computing? Computing society needs to promote more gender equity and better ways at working together. We present our experiences on trying to do so.
Jobs and paid-for schooling can keep Tanzanian girls from early marriages Women living in the poorest parts of any city need policies that create employment opportunities and offer girls an alternative choice to marriage.
Life and death – just a regular Tuesday For student nurses, interacting with patients is the most effective way to learn.
Young people use prescription medicine to boost academic performance Student: “You either succeed or you’re nothing.”
Citizen science: How you can help scientists Scientists need you! Sign up for a citizen science project and help to make all of us that little bit smarter.
Kids with rich grandparents do better in school Having rich grandparents can clearly make a child’s life materially easier. But now it appears that wealth may also affect a child’s grades in school.
Tablets enhance play by taking toddlers on a digital adventure Tablets do not necessarily make children passive or sedentary. In a Danish nursery, a group of scientists, educators, and education consultants have studied how digital technologies can be used to enhance playful activities.
Can you train children to persevere? New project will discover whether children can be trained to become more persistent in their learning and boost their life chances as adults.
Fewer born with genetic predisposition for education A genetic predisposition towards education seems to also be associated with having fewer children, suggests a new study.
Religious and superstitious people understand the physical world less than atheists Religious people have a lower understanding and interest in physics and maths than non-religious people, and often ascribe emotions to inanimate objects, shows new research.
Pupils don’t know what is expected of them Ninth-graders are terribly worried about having their school performance assessed. But according to a recent doctoral thesis, the kids don’t understand how evaluations are made and what they could possibly do to improve their standings.
How extremists become ex-extremists Ideology is not the barrier that stops an extremist from abandoning their radical views and reintegrating into the community, shows new research.
Recess improves student performance Long school days are part of everyday life for many school kids, but it is important to give students time to recover, shows new study.
Are ADHD drugs prescribed needlessly to disadvantaged children? ADHD medications are prescribed more than three times as much to children of parents with low-skilled jobs, compared with the children of more educated parents, new research shows.
Bad air quality makes children perform worse in schools School students fared better in tests after the classroom had been circulated with fresh air, shows new study.
Finland’s school reforms won’t scrap subjects altogether OPINION: Despite the reforms, Finnish schools will continue to teach mathematics, history, arts, music and other subjects in the future.
Scientists warn: creationism is on the rise in Europe More and more people in Europe are beginning to believe that a god -- not evolution -- shaped life on Earth and there are no signs this development will stop.
Why Finland and Norway still shun university tuition fees – even for international students OPINION: A high level of education is beneficial for all of society, so individual human beings should not have to pay for it, argues Professor Jussi Välimaa.
High school students say internet is bad for education Researchers find that most high school students feel that access to the internet during classes spoils the lessons.
More and more universities use virtual laboratories Universities are showing great interest in the virtual laboratory ‘Labster’ as new research shows students learn more and have greater motivation when they use the tool.
Low education makes the brain age faster Mental capacity and IQ deteriorate much faster for people with less education than others, study reveals. The findings provide new insight into the development of dementia.
High schoolers get to mingle with world-leading researchers High school students will play an important role at the EuroScience Open Forum's science conference in Copenhagen on 21-26 June. Their tasks are to engage themselves in the latest scientific discoveries and keep the science debate alive.
Creativity facilitates learning Brain research and studies conducted in primary schools show that incorporating theatre, film, art and music into teaching facilitates learning – and fun.
Danish scientists are the most satisfied Danish scientists topped the list in the ‘2012 Salary and Satisfaction Survey’, carried out by the science journal Nature. However, similar Danish surveys reveal a different picture.
When negativity doesn’t pull the news through A news journalist has devoted her master’s thesis in psychology to bringing positivity back to journalism, replacing the negativity that is driving readers away.
China has inspired us since Enlightenment Europe and the USA are stagnating economically, while China thunders ahead. Can we learn anything from China? New research shows the West has been inspired by China since the Age of Enlightenment.
