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  • The future of learning hack kickstarts on July 1

    The Future of Learning Hack is an Ashesi Design Lab initiative which seeks to enable individuals to leverage their design thinking and innovative abilities in addressing the challenges associated with online examination.

    It is set to begin on the 1st of July and end on the 14th of July 2020.

    In this 2-Week program, participants will explore ideas and come up with solutions to the problems of online examination.

    While COVID-19 has caused great distress in the educational sector, many top Ghanaian universities have responded well to the situation by employing an online approach to teaching and learning.

    This virtual approach to education is indeed a timely one. But if you once ran out of data in the middle of an exam, or perhaps delayed in submitting documents due to slow internet, then you would know there are some setbacks with the system.

    In light of this, the Ashesi Design Lab wishes to give every problem-solver out there a chance to resolve some of these current educational problems through its Future Learning Hack.

    Source: Ashesi Design Lab

  • Native English speakers fall behind children of immigrants in GCSE maths and English

    Native English speakers have fallen behind the children of immigrants in GCSE maths and English, an official analysis has found.

    According to the latest data from the Department for Education, 43.2 per cent of native English speakers gained grades 9-5 in English and maths in 2019, compared to 43.8 per cent their peers who speak English as an additional language.

    Native speakers were also outperformed by their non-native speaking peers in 2017.  The figures also show that white pupils are the least likely to enter for the eBacc subjects when sitting GCSEs.

    Just 37.5 per cent of white teenagers enter for the award, which is the lowest proportion out of all other ethnic groups.

    Source: Telegrah.co.uk