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Emergence of no-gender societies
A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.
Growing failures of social care in educating young people
New evidence mounts demonstrating the lack of educational engagement and achievement among young people from social care backgrounds. The perceived crisis of social care is intensified as “cycles of deprivation” accumulate ...
Automatic learning through neuro-data transfer
Automatic neuro-education is technologically possible but at a price - and therefore available only to wealthy people (or those singled out by powerful institutions for such enhancement). Techniques are developed for neurologic...
Government cut backs driving innovation but possibly affecti ...
This could stimulate innovation and new social capital and community based business but in certain countries worst affected, cuts will undermine social cohesion, healthcare, education and public order. Change needs to be manage...
Less than half of UK engineering and physical science gradua ...
There are many students deferring university entry because there is perceived higher competition for university entrants places. A knock-on effect could be a sudden downturn in UK student intake, leading to a dip in terms of sk...
Basic education ends in the age of 18
Basic education including highschool and first degree education (Bsc/BA) of today will be completed by the age of 18. Highschool education will be achieved by the age of 15 . Compulsory education system will include first degre...
Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Trai ...
The Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme is a non-profit organization that provides education and training for rural development in the very poor and diverse Kibaale District of Uganda. URDTP is seen as a benchmark p...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
University offers Lady Gaga sociology course
As reported by BBC, a new course on "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame" is to be taught at the University of South Carolina. Course documents said students would learn to "engage in sound and substantiated scholarly think...
UK Government spending cuts force libraries to close, this may result in people from deprived areas being unable to access books for reading pleasure. This will increase the current educational gap between rich and poorer area...
Common European Language Established
A new Common European Language is established. I shall help to overcome language barriers within the EU and foster a common European identity. It shall not replace any language spoken in the EU member states.
Reading and writing are no longer considered fundamental to children's education. New visual forms of communication combined with ubiquitous touch screens replace reading and writing.
Idea of life-long-learning seems to start to penetrate society
In the future, the degrees may not be for whole lifetime anymore. It may be mandatory to update you qualifications in order to be qualified to certain profession. Life-long-learning challenges the contemporary degrees.
Nepotism and corruption replace qualifications
Many professions are over educated. Elder people stay in their good positions as long as possible and they want to make favours to their relatives. Education starts to mater less and less. Athens case – the 700€ generation ...
