Enhanced Learning

VTech has been running one of the most successful online learning sites for many years, but last month it suffered a serious blow. The site which is part of the global electronic firms web presence was hacked and potentially millions of user credentials compromised. The company released the details in a recent press release but […]

It’s often been touted as the rise of a new form of education which will eventually transform the world. The MOOC is certainly transforming the way the world’s Universities are delivering their courses. What’s more they are allowing people to access world class education irrespective of their location or circumstances. Massive Open Online courses are […]

Applying on-line training programs to educate psychotherapists the best way to use newer evidence-based treatments can not be as unsuccessful as in person education, in accordance with a RAND Corporation study that is new. Psychotherapy treatments can lag behind what because there just will not be enough clinicians trained in new procedures, research has proven […]

Alimentary Health Xilinx Ireland and Dublin City University were named the overall winners in the inaugural US-Ireland research invention awards in Dublin. Higher education associations and fifteen businesses were shortlisted for the awards, which are the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland as well as a combined initiative involving the Royal Irish Academy. Xilinx Ireland […]

Many of us especially as we watch our kids grow up, tend to wish we’d picked up more skills when younger.   I was watching a discussion on the Irish TV Channel, TV3 online where a adult education teacher was trying to encourage adults to come back and learn.  Incidentally you can only watch TV3 […]

It has been largely heralded that the future of education will be heavily linked with distance and online learning.  Although some people have doubted this, the evidence suggest that this transformation has already begun and is only going to speed up over the next few years. To summarise, technology is simply moving the traditional campus […]

Public Health England (PHE) has made a preliminary expression of interest in nationwide rolling out an eLearning class that was designed by Warwickshire County Council and its own associate Learning Pool in cooperation as well as neighbouring local authorities and wellness partners. Components contain scripts to assist frontline staff start and execute a dialogue to […]

There’s an exciting development beginning this year, in the higher education sector for UK students.   For the very first time, six formers will be able to apply to Universities based outside the UK using the Ucas system. This is a huge change and will bring much wider choice for students across the country.  It […]

It is generally agreed that in traditional education, the smaller the class size the better the educational experience.  For many of us who sat in dull lectures thirty rows back while at University, it’s a statement that rings true. After all just from the practicalities it makes sense, you can hear, remain engaged and feel […]

The general election in the UK is looming and unusually education has had rather a back seat when it comes to election promises so far, at least from the major parties.  Now the liberals are pushing education as one of their central ideas with a pledge to get rid of child illiteracy in the UK […]