The growing trend of encouraging educators to learn about how children’s brains work can offer reassurance, but it risks teachers’ autonomy and critical thinking, a new study warns.

The Minister for AI and Digital Government launched the UK’s first of its kind AI for Science Master’s programme at King’s College London.

A new ECNU Review of Education essay by Suhao Peng urges a shift from focusing on differences between Finnish and Chinese teacher education to their underlying similarities and commonalities. This discussion essay highlights similarities and commonalities such as teacher qualification standards, high societal value placed on educators, and shared contemporary challenges. Moving beyond differentialism, the author advocates recognizing these similarities to foster mutual learning and joint solutions to global educational issues.

Despite decades of global commitments to end poverty, a large share of the world’s population continues to live without reliable access to the services and infrastructure that support basic wellbeing. A new IIASA study presents a detailed picture of poverty that goes beyond traditional income-based measures.