Even if we weren’t the least bit interested when younger, it seems we generally take to classical music as we get older. That’s certainly been the trend up until now, or until Generation X – those born between 1961 and 1981 – came along.
Recent research shows that Gen Xers are yet to “participate” in classical [...]

Are school curriculums beginning to favour the teaching of left-brained (analytical) skills over right-brained (abstract) skills?
I had set out to teach design as a problem solving process (which it is!) but along the way I had forgotten that it is also a frame of mind – and I mean that almost literally. In design, thinking [...]

A school’s reputation is still no guarantee your children will enjoy academic success, it’s the calibre of their individual teachers that is more important.
Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but the school, statistically speaking, does not matter as much as which adult stands in front of their children. Teacher [...]

A case for including design among the stem, or core, subjects (the sciences, technology, mathematics and engineering) in higher education programs.
The Design Council’s added value research 2007 showed that companies that used design to add value to their products or services had a higher return than competitors on profitability, turnover and market share. Design [...]

TV is proving to be an important driver of social change in developing nations.
In our collective enthusiasm for whiz-bang new social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the implications of this next television age – from lower birthrates among poor women to decreased corruption to higher school enrollment rates – have largely gone overlooked despite [...]

Private school fees are probably a big enough headache for many parents, to say nothing of the other costs involved, especially for school uniforms.
What can compound both aforementioned issues though is the requirement by some schools – interestingly not always the “top-shelf” private institutions – that uniforms can only be purchased from selected suppliers, [...]

School never looked as different as it does when it is seemingly deserted… a collection of images take from “Places of Education” by Lissa Rivera.

A review of a book written by professor W. Brian Arthur “The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves”, and a dissection of the slow burning nature of innovation:
Rather, innovation is something that comes from the hard work of decades and decades of education and training. It is something that comes from [...]

Given textbooks in some subjects are virtually out of date the minute they roll off the printing press it’s no surprise some educators are considering the use of digital references instead.
Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by [...]

25 years is a long time to hold onto something that only lasted five or six years… shouldn’t there be a statute of limitations, of say ten years, on high school reunions?
Now it’s twenty five years since I got out of that miserable fucking hell-hole. And people from my high school class are suddenly getting [...]