The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) showed in their recent post that 8 percent of U.S. Rhodes Scholar recipients are graduates of boarding schools. In the last five years it has reflected that the chances of getting a scholarship …
Why French Professors prefer teaching in Uncle Sam’s
The New York Times report that teachers in France are slowly leaving their home land to teach in the United States. France is now facing an impending risk of “brain drain” from this growing incident. French government and officials …
Understanding Tertiary Education
Formal education is an important part of every person’s personal achievement, social formation, growth, and development. This doesn’t only include primary level of education. More importantly, it also includes the tertiary level in college or university.
Implementing Active learning
Active learning is a technique wherein students participate in a lecture instead of just being a listener to the teacher. Students participate by processing, discovering and applying knowledge gained in the process. It comes from two basic theories that …
Standardized Tests: Is it a Measure of True Excellence?
Standardized tests are examinations in which all students answer the same set of questions usually in a multiple choice format with only one correct answer per question. There are many debates arguing whether standardized tests can truly measure a student’s …