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Education Ministry Drafts Action Plan To Deal With Declining STEM Students Malaysian Digest | Twitter Kuala Lumpur: The Education Ministry is drafting the 2017-2025 National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Action Plan to overcome the declining number of students joining the stream. Deputy Education Minister Datuk P Kamalanathan said, the action plan to be implemented through the ministry’s cooperation with the Higher Education Ministry and Science, Technology, and Innovation Ministry, focuses on eight key areas, including basic teaching and learning policies and facilities. “The plan also focuses on awareness programme, career, strategic cooperation, data and research, commercialisation and innovation,” he told the Dewan Rakyat sitting today. He was replying to Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan (PAS-Kota Bharu) on the cause behind the declining ratio of students in the STEM stream. To read more visit Malaysian Digest Mansfield school district approves pre-k, STEM campuses Amanda Rogers | Star-Telegram | Twitter The Mansfield …

Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills Emma Brown | The Washington Post | Twitter Girls outperformed boys on a national test of technology and engineering literacy that the federal government administered for the first time in 2014, according to results made public Tuesday. Among eighth-grade students in public and private schools, 45 percent of girls and 42 percent of boys scored proficient on the exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. Overall, 43 percent of all students were proficient. The test was designed to measure students’ abilities in areas such as understanding technological principles, designing solutions and communicating and collaborating. Girls were particularly strong in the latter. There also were large racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps, mirroring results on standardized tests in other subjects. Just 25 percent of students who received free and reduced-price lunch scored proficient, compared to 59 percent of more …

10/21/2016| London | Breitbart London Students march through London demanding free university education Breitbart London | Twitter An estimated 15,000 students and lecturers marched in London on Saturday demanding the government provides them with free university education. Students marched through the UK capital holding signs about a wide, disparate variety of issues, including tuition fees, Donald Trump and Brexit. Far-left speakers such as Owen Jones and Malia Bouattia, the controversial president of the National University of Students (NUS), addressed the crowd, criticizing the government for allowing universities to increase their fees in line with inflation. The NUS-organised an “afterparty” for students who attended the demonstration Goldsmiths University of London. To read more visit Breitbart London Students and lecturers march against Tories’ education bill Rebecca Ratcliffe | The Guardian | Twitter Students and lecturers have marched through central London to protest against government plans for an “ideologically led market experiment” that …

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