Education

On 20 April 2023, SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever built. The Starship space vehicle, designed to take people to Mars in the future, took off and after four minutes exploded without a crew on board. The great aerospace challenge…

The removal from school textbooks of chapters covering the Mughal period of India’s history, spanning three centuries, has raised a storm of protest from scholars in the country. By Ranjit Devraj The Mughals, who ruled much of the Indian subcontinent…

In difficult situations, humour is a good medicine that helps to reflect and put things in the right perspective. The popular Mexican series, El Chapulín Colorado, in which the superhero plays a grasshopper with humour and childlike innocence. Calma, calma,…

Silo’s words that framed our project to sensitise sighted people to the group of blind people marginalised by our society: “When you do something for others, when you look for the needy, the disoriented, the dispossessed and help them to…

An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution. By Jan Ritch-Frel There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes…

Talking today with a grandmother who has observed education for the last 60 years, first as a pupil, then as a mother and now as a grandmother, she was telling me that what remains unchanged is the definition of a…

(Note: The discussions on Hybrid Teaching Learning Modality can be found in the first part. Here is the link: https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/offshoots-of-the-resilient-academe-hybrid-teaching-learning-modality-and-faculty-research-presentations/) — by Genevieve Balance Kupang Empowered to embrace positive VUCA (Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility), some faculty were able to…

The International Day of Happiness was celebrated on 20 March. It was established by the UN (United Nations) following a proposal by the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has made the happiness of its population one of its political objectives. The…

“A productive tree never ceases to bear fruits even in the hardest of seasons.” — by Genevieve Balance Kupang Committed to promoting lifelong learning opportunities for human development and social transformation, and showcasing its commitment to research engagement, the Polytechnic…

Dozens of Bronx public school parents, teachers, students and community activists gathered on March 20, the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, to oppose a military recruitment fair, hosted by U.S. House Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Adriano…