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This recent BBC article highlights efforts in the UK to help protect children from predators that use online dating apps. Dating apps Grindr and Tinder are to be asked to explain to the government how they pr . . .
It is interesting that there is a call to review or overhaul the A-level system as the current system is considered to be too narrow or specialized. I think it is fair to say that it is narrow or specialized, wit . . .
Lego was just in the news for dominating the weekend box office for the The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. This Danish toy may become more common in the classroom, as Lego has launched a new division called L . . .
The Harvard Grad School of Education reports on preliminary research looking at stress in particular the stress hormone cortisol, and how it correlates to test performance. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, high . . .
UCAS has released its numbers for university applications, reported here in The Independent. The takeaway point for parents out here in Asia is that the rise in numbers is significantly due to an increas . . .
Record numbers of students from mainland China and Hong Kong are applying for places at British universities, with the number of applications from China and Hong Kong for undergraduate positions at UK universities . . .
In a very worrying article recently published in the SCMP, social worker Pauline Chan Mei-ying reported that “In her first two years as a social worker in kindergartens, Chan had to handle a case of a f . . .
From The ChalkFace has featured a series of articles related to children and the use of mobile devices, commonly referred to as Screen Time. A recent article has UK’s four chief medical officers recomme . . .
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