New research from the University of Bath shows that graduates of elite MBA programmes, particularly the so‑called M7 super‑elite US schools, are significantly more likely to become top management team members and CEOs than those with non‑elite MBAs or no MBA at all. However, the study of more than 106,000 executives in S&P 500 companies between 2000 and 2018 showed the benefits of holding an elite MBA were not evenly spread between men, women and minorities, and altered according to the prevailing economic winds.

The University of Tartu Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health has launched a new continuing education course entitled “Foreign nationals in Estonian health system”. The course is based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global competency standards for refugee and migrant health and is the first of its kind in the world.

The special education workforce has faced a crisis of attracting and retaining qualified educators in recent years. A new volume takes an approach linking recruitment, education, support and leadership to produce and keep quality teachers. The book calls for a whole systems approach, not the temporary fixes that have been widely attempted in recent years to ensure quality education for some of the nation's most vulnerable student populations.

Led by computing academics at Lancaster University in collaboration with researchers from University College London, the study examined how frequently adults aged 50 and over use the internet, and why some use it less than others.

The study’s authors examined nationally representative data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), which includes responses from more than 6,000 people, to also discover how ageing itself plays a part in how often people access the online world.

Their analysis reveals that most older people in England are using the internet a lot. ELSA data shows that more than 90% of people aged over 50 are regular (daily or monthly) internet users and internet use is higher than commonly assumed.

Although internet use is high, the analysis shows an age-related ‘digital divide’ among older people and their use of internet still persists, with internet use dropping with age. The data shows that 97.7% of people aged 50-64-years-old are regularly digitally active; 91.1% among those aged 65-79-years-old, and 65.7% of those aged 80 and older.

A new study in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics assessed life trajectories of children in Lesotho, Africa, across a wide range of educational and later-life outcomes. The study found that children who enrolled in primary school at an older age—despite an initial disadvantage in years of schooling—were more likely to remain in school through adolescence, obtained higher total years of schooling, and developed greater literacy than children who began primary school at younger ages. The older children were also more likely to delay marriage, have fewer children, hold higher-earning jobs, and accumulate greater wealth.

A substantial amount of medical information provided by 5 popular chatbots is inaccurate and incomplete, with half of the answers to clear evidence based questions “somewhat” or “highly” problematic, show the results of a study published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Continued deployment of these chatbots without public education and oversight risks amplifying misinformation, warn the researchers.