Author: Nola Jones

The majority of educators recall a certain moment. An unsuccessful classroom. A digital tool that delivered confusion while promising everything. A semester in which technology was more of a hindrance than an asset. Those experiences felt dispersed for a long time, like anecdotal annoyances without a true intellectual home. Subsequently, a publication emerged that began to connect those strands in a meaningful way. For the better part of two decades, the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education has been doing something deceptively straightforward: providing serious researchers with a serious forum to ask serious questions about the intersections of…

Block E8, a government building that most Malaysians will never enter but whose decisions affect nearly every family in the nation, is located on the outskirts of Putrajaya, Malaysia’s administrative capital, a city that still feels half-planned and half-arrived. The Ministry of Education, locally referred to as Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, or just KPM, has its headquarters here. By most accounts, it is among Southeast Asia’s biggest and most intricate institutions. It is not hyperbole to say that the Ministry operates more like a small business than a government agency, given that it employed close to 588,000 people as of 2022.…

When it comes to choosing their subjects, Secondary Three students in Singapore experience a certain kind of anxiety. It feels a bit louder in the hallways. At dinner, parents ask more questions. Brochures are distributed by teachers. A government-built website is also waiting somewhere in the background; it is mostly unused, occasionally found, and occasionally transformative. MySkillsFuture for Students is that website, and it should receive more attention than it usually does. The portal was designed as a one-stop shop where students from elementary school through pre-university can map out their educational paths, discover their own strengths, and investigate careers.…

Jackie Chan has made a name for himself by doing things that most people would think are impossible. hanging from buses in motion. sliding along the building’s sides. Taking hits that would send anyone else to the hospital, then getting back up to perform another take. The Hong Kong martial arts legend is still active at 72, but the scene will be much more subdued next week. By all accounts, Chan’s visit to Pei Chun Public School in Singapore on July 7 will be the most unusual and unforgettable school day those students have ever experienced. The announcement was made…

A student standing in line at an airport, a little nervous, with a laptop bag slung over one shoulder, and hoping that the seat they can barely afford will get them where they need to go has a subtle practicality. The expense of air travel is a real barrier for millions of students who travel abroad every year. This is why, upon closer inspection, the Turkish Airlines student discount seems like something worth learning about. Turkish Airlines has positioned itself as one of the few large airlines with a well-defined, easily accessible student discount program—not a hazy “check our deals”…

Haliç University lacks the long history of Istanbul’s most renowned establishments. It was established in 1998, which is relatively new for a university, and its beginnings are peculiar enough to make anyone think twice. The Foundation for Children with Leukemia, which is not the type of founding organization you would expect behind a full-fledged university with engineering departments and a medical faculty, founded the institution. Haliç is not diminished by her past. If anything, it gives the establishment a purpose that some more established, bureaucratic establishments appear to have lost over time. Mecidiyeköy, Şişhane, Şişli Bomonti, Fulya, and Okmeydanı are…

There is a type of historical dishonesty that doesn’t take the form of blatant lies. It comes softly, speaking in a language of balance and subtlety, posing logical queries and evoking memories. This is how residential school denialism functions in Canada, and it has been doing so for years, frequently in plain sight. The evidence was overwhelming when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its final report in 2015. Over five million documents. More than seven thousand survivors’ testimonies. The Indian Residential School system was described as genocide in six volumes. “Without truth, justice is not served, healing cannot happen,…

A group of professional athletes making the independent decision that their position merits greater attention has a subtle allure. Instead of using a league initiative or a press campaign, they organized their own three-day summit. That’s basically what Tight End University is, and seeing it develop over the course of five years into a true cultural phenomenon says something intriguing about the current state of the NFL. Three tight ends—Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle, and recently retired Carolina Panthers star Greg Olsen—co-founded Tight End University, or TEU, in 2021. Bringing tight…

Four schools used to stand somewhat apart in a section of southeast Melbourne, each with its own student body, history, and set of issues. More than 2,000 students from Year 7 through Year 12 are taught at Keysborough Secondary College, which now operates across two contemporary campuses where those schools once stood. On paper, this kind of transformation seems simple. In reality, it is hardly ever. In October 2008, the $43 million merger of Chandler, Heatherhill, Springvale, and Coomoora Secondary Colleges was formally completed. It wasn’t until late 2009 that work on the two retained campuses, now known as Acacia…

Ellen Fitzgerald awakens to two jobs on a 24,000-hectare cattle station located between Winton and Muttaburra. One includes branding, water points, fences, and the relentless pace of cattle country. The other is sitting down with her seven-year-old daughter Vivien and attempting to manage something that, on a good day, works like a school. When the teacher has to cancel the online lesson due to an unforeseen circumstance, she is left on her own with no backup materials. “I don’t have a framework for what to teach her,” she recently stated. Even though that sentence is brief, it has a lot…