Why skills are the new education
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker assesses Gordon Brown's attempt to address the UK skills crisis.
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Employers are urged to help improve the basic skills of the workforce by the government.
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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The time to think about your kindergartener's college education is now.
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Off-shoring continues to take its toll This month has seen the UK's aspiring Prime Minister recycling his views in his Budget Report on the requirements and funding for enhancing the training opportunities and skills to compete globally as a prelude to announcing greater investment in higher education. Some people and organisations, âspeaking on behalf of the UK IT Industryâ, have hitched themselves to this bandwagon in the anticipation that some of the UK Government's proposed increase in its skills and education funding will find its way to the IT industry both in funding terms and in delivering more highly trained and motivated IT professionals.â¦
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(Source: Webex)  Whether around the block or across the globe, businesses can now educate their employees anywhere, anytime, without boundaries.  Learn how these four companies did it.
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In this digital age, the pressures of streamlining and efficiency lead to more daily functions that can only be performed online.  This leaves behind those who don't have computer access, equipment, or skills.
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Gordon Brown creates a new department to deal with science, higher education and skills.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker unravels the trends in university applications.
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âItâs not the old guard in manufacturing anymore. Now there is a new guardâ that understands technology and can digest the information and knowledge that advanced business applications offer to young, growing companies.
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The more you teach, the more you learn.
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By Scarborough, Robert  FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE GLOBALIZATION OF the American economy is a challenge and an opportunity.
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A new GCSE in Chinese is being offered, following demand from schools and business.
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Mike Baker looks at how the language of management has begun to dominate discussions of education.
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âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
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By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times  Sep. 25--The tech industry has a new role in Washington state -- as the poster child for education reform.