Maud Chifamba is showing that with enough determination, you can accomplish ANYTHING. At the age of 14, she is the youngest person to attend university in not only Zimbabwe, but all of southern Africa! It wasn’t easy getting to this point. Born on November 19th 1997, she was raised inContinue Reading
Where have all the computer science graduates gone? That’s the question that Microsoft is not only asking, but they are taking action to improve those numbers. According to the Association for Computing Machinery, there are an estimated 150,000 computer science jobs opening up every year for the foreseeable future. DespiteContinue Reading
Remember Margaret Dunning, the 102 year old who still changes her car’s oil and spark plugs? Well apparently she has become even more famous from her article on Good World News. She grabbed the attention of people at the FRAM Group – a company that makes automobile products. They awardedContinue Reading
College courses can be expensive, especially from top private universities. This is where Coursera comes to the rescue! Coursera.org partners with top universities from around the world to deliver college courses online for FREE. Their goal is to provide the best education to millions of people throughout the world. SoContinue Reading
ITHACA, NY — Ithaca College has two of the country’s best undergraduate teachers, according to the Princeton Review. The education services company features profiles of professor of mathematics Marty Sternstein and associate professor of chemistry Mike Haaf in its new book, “The Best 300 Professors.” Hailing from 122 colleges and universities across the nation,Continue Reading
SYDNEY, Australia — Dr Allan Stewart, a 97-year-old retired Australian dentist, just received his masters degree in clinical science from Southern Cross University– setting the new world record for Oldest graduate, according to the World Records Academy: www.worldrecordsacademy.org/ Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the oldest existing, andContinue Reading
For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degreeContinue Reading
Loyola High seniors teach economics to junior high students at a Pasadena-based center that helps educate youths who were abused or need special attention. There was a shy seventh-grade boy sitting at his desk in the far back of the classroom, head down, looking bored and uninterested.Then Loyola High kickerContinue Reading
KinderTown, the startup behind the educational iOS app store for parents (and honestly, a personal fav) is expanding its focus today. According to feedback from its users, the number one complaint was that KinderTown wasn’t available for older children. Now that changes, as the service will bump up its supportedContinue Reading