9+ hour, 56+ min ago   (419+ words) More than 68,000 students have been trained in semiconductor chip design, and 254 chip designs have been successfully taped out under the government's Chips to Start-ups (C2S) Programme, as per the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The programme is aimed at building…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago   (443+ words) A decade ago, Singapore's pre-school sector grappled with ensuring enough places for children, while also making early childhood education more affordable and accessible to families. Today, there are more than 220,000 full-day pre-school places, up from about 135,000 in 2016. Experts and pre-school…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (395+ words) Global youth unemployment rose in 2025, the United Nations said on Aug 11, with some of the steepest increases seen in high-income countries as artificial intelligence begins to change the jobs market. The tentative, short-lived recovery in youth labour markets that followed…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (518+ words) Schools can teach Welsh, but can they create lifelong speakers? New research suggests the answer is more complicated than policy assumes, says Daniel Patrick Strogen WALES has an ambitious goal - to achieve one million Welsh speakers by 2050. Schools are central…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (318+ words) PARENTS and grandparents could send a child to university without the burden of student loan debt by putting away as little as £125 a month. Investing that sum in a Junior Stocks and Shares ISA from birth could build a university…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (426+ words) LECTURERS at South African universities seldom make media headlines, and unless one works in academia, ordinary civilians are unlikely to know or understand the crisis that besets this crucial category of labour. The crisis is much more than an issue…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (219+ words) - BY TYLER AUSTIN HARPER Tyler Austin Harper is a staff writer at The Atlantic. As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming. On your right, affixed…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (362+ words) RECENTLY, I had the privilege of attending the centenary celebrations of the Colombo Branch of the St. Anthony’s College, Kandy Old Boys’ Association. - By Dr. Ranjan L.G. De Silva As I met former teachers, schoolmates and fellow Antonians, I…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (316+ words) YOU’D have thought by now discredited Equality, Diversity and Inclusion schemes, quotas, courses and programmes would have been consigned to the dustbin — but not so. This multimillion-pound industry marches on. The latest scandal is the appointment of Jason Arday to…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (309+ words) THE government will invest £65m into zero-emission vehicles, despite a backlash from the industry over its electric vehicle mandate. The funding includes £50m for car firms and research partners to help produce electric vehicles on a larger scale. This story is from…...