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Why one school has banned phones for some pupils - but not others Schools across Wales say phone bans improve behaviour but can mean conflict with pupils and parents.
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Colleges to share £175m to meet future jobs need The three are among 19 across the UK to use to cash to offer digital and technologies training.
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School gets £4,500 for lockable mobile phone cases The money will part-fund signal-blocking pouches for about 900 pupils aged 11 to 16.
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Pupil sets school laptop on fire following social media trend Fire service officers attended the incident in Dumbarton last week as pupils are warned about the "chromebook challenge".
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Aberdeen university staff begin 10 more days of strikes Members of the UCU union are taking further action this in a dispute over spending cuts.
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Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
A framework for characterising and capturing the quality of digital interactions and experiences in early... Abstract
Understanding what constitutes quality in digital interactions within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings has become paramount in an increasingly technology-enabled world. This imperative has grown, with diverse ingrained positions about the role of digital technology in ECEC, and ...
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Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Scenario‐Based AI Literacy Scale (SAILS): Evidence for distinct instrumental and critical‐reflective AI skills and their... Abstract
Given the increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into everyday life and professional contexts, it is essential to investigate learners' existing capabilities regarding AI tools to inform possible interventions to equip them with necessary AI skills, but also advance the ...
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Learning with audiobooks
MIT News - Education, teaching, academics | Online learning | Massive open online courses (MOOCs) | MITx | EdX
Learning with audiobooks Millions of students nationwide use text-supplemented audiobooks, learning tools that are thought to help those who struggle with reading keep up in the classroom. A new study from scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research finds that many students ...
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MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2026-27
MIT News - Education, teaching, academics | Online learning | Massive open online courses (MOOCs) | MITx | EdX
MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2026-27 U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, released today. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs.The MIT Sloan ...
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Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
When machines join the moral circle: The persona effect of generative AI agents in collaborative... Abstract
Generative AI is increasingly positioned as a peer in collaborative learning, yet its effects on ethical deliberation remain unclear. We report a between-subjects experiment with university students (N = 217) who discussed an autonomous-vehicle dilemma in triads under three conditions: human-only control, ...
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As World Cup kick-off nears, a reminder of the power of sport to build bridges...
UN News - Global perspective Human stories
As World Cup kick-off nears, a reminder of the power of sport to build bridges... The 2026 World Cup final will take place at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, a few miles away from UN Headquarters where, on Wednesday, elite athletes and sports administrators spoke about the power of football and other international sports ...
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Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Wiley: British Journal of Educational Technology: Table of Contents
Assessing different implementation modalities of an EdTech intervention for lower‐primary learners: A difference‐in‐difference study in... Abstract
This paper presents findings from a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference study on three different implementation modalities of the same EdTech intervention, implemented in Pujehun district in Sierra Leone. It offers a critical discussion of the impact of two different personalised modalities and ...
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World News in Brief: 273 million out of school, deadly attacks on Ukraine, migratory species...
UN News - Global perspective Human stories
World News in Brief: 273 million out of school, deadly attacks on Ukraine, migratory species... The number of children and young people out of school worldwide has climbed for the seventh consecutive year, reaching 273 million, according to a new report from the UN education agency, UNESCO. 
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3 Questions: Communicating about climate, in audio and beyond
MIT News - Education, teaching, academics | Online learning | Massive open online courses (MOOCs) | MITx | EdX
3 Questions: Communicating about climate, in audio and beyond Since her first journalism fellowship covering energy and the environment at the NPR station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Madison Goldberg has been drawn to science communication and audio storytelling. Now, after reporting on topics from solar storms to sewer systems to ...
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Preserving Keres
MIT News - Education, teaching, academics | Online learning | Massive open online courses (MOOCs) | MITx | EdX
Preserving Keres Growing up in the village of Kewa — located between Santa Fe and Albuquerque in New Mexico — William Pacheco, a member of the Santo Domingo Pueblo, learned the value of his language, its history, and the traditions it carries.“We speak ...
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Department for Education - Activity on GOV.UK
Official Statistics: Teacher demand and postgraduate trainee need: 2026 to 2027 Annual teacher demand trajectories by phase, and postgraduate initial teacher trainee need for those starting training in the 2026 to 2027 academic year, in England, by subject.

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