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Education

The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the case for V-levels replacing BTecs is unproven | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:30 PM, via The Guardian

Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continues

The government’s granting of a stay of execution to popular courses including health and business studies BTecs, while alternatives are developed, is a victory for common sense. It should not have taken a years‑long campaign by the college sector to prevent the...

Education

Row over university fees shows UK’s ‘reset’ with EU may not be so simple

Yesterday at 19:11 PM, via The Guardian

Ministers go to Brussels for talks amid tuition fees standoff, almost 10 years after Britons voted to leave EU

This week is “Brexit reset” week for the British government, as ministers engage in a flurry of activity intended to highlight their determination to forge closer ties with Brussels almost 10 years after the country first voted to leave the EU.

On Monday, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the...

Education

Office for Students faces judicial review over public funding for bible colleges

Yesterday at 18:45 PM, via The Guardian

National Secular Society to launch court action after failure to investigate alleged breaches of academic freedom laws

A university regulator in England has failed to investigate potential breaches of laws protecting academic freedom at a dozen theological colleges and is now facing legal action, the Guardian has learned.

The National Secular Society says it is preparing to pursue the Office...

Education

Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year

Britain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, in a row that threatens to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset.

EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year as part of the...

Lifestyle

Springboks AI-song becomes viral anthem [watch]

Yesterday at 20:41 PM, via The South African

The Springboks new anthem – ‘They Don’t Know What We Know’ – was originally created using AI, and now sung by vocalist Anslin Gysman.

Lifestyle

The food choices that affect your bone health

Yesterday at 20:10 PM, via The South African

Scientists are investigating how our food choices affect bone health and fracture risk, raising questions about modern diets.

Science/Tech

Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family?

Yesterday at 23:51 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but “I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways… I’ve been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!” And “the family needs to scale — cheap and small at the...

Science/Tech

CachyOS Dethrones Arch As ProtonDB’s Top Linux Gamer Desktop Distro

Yesterday at 22:51 PM, via Slashdot

Linux gaming “has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does,” according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there’s a new surprise on ProtonDB, an “unofficial” community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton:On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned...

Science/Tech

How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea’s Massive Remote Workers Scam

Yesterday at 21:49 PM, via Slashdot

NBC News investigates North Korea’s “wide-ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in some cases, steal sensitive information.” And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investigations company decided to knowingly hire one of North Korea’s remote workers — then “ship him a laptop and gain as much information as possible”...

Science/Tech

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick’s Newest Venture? ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’

Yesterday at 19:55 PM, via Slashdot

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that “will focus on creating ‘gainfully employed robots’ for the food, mining and transport industries,” Bloomberg reports. “I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken,” writes Kalanick on the new company’s web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was “torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into… I...

Motoring

South Africa’s 3-tonne bakkie club

Yesterday at 09:38 AM, via TopAuto

Bakkies in South Africa offer owners incredible capability, especially those that have a 3-tonne towing capacity.