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World

Ukraine offers drone expertise to Gulf amid Iran strikes

Today at 11:48 AM, via NPR

As Iran launches its Shahed drones at Gulf nations in retaliation for strikes by the U.S. and Israel, Ukraine offers its expertise at downing the drones Russia has lobbed at its cities for years.

World

China offers to mediate in US-Israel-Iran war

Today at 11:47 AM, via NPR

China says it will send a special envoy to the Middle East to help mediate the US-Israel-Iran war, as Chinese political elites gather in Beijing for the annual “Two Sessions.”

Education

Thursday briefing: ​Were a generation of students mis-sold the idea of a university degree?

Today at 08:45 AM, via The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: Rising debts, frozen thresholds and spiralling interest have left ​millions of graduates questioning whether England’s student finance system still resembles the deal they were promised

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In November, Rachel Reeves tucked a freeze to student loan repayment thresholds into her autumn budget, to little fanfare. The threshold, normally expected to rise each tax...

Education

South Africa: Teaching Mathematical Statistics – One Lecturer’s Way of Testing What Students Understand

Today at 06:35 AM, via AllAfrica

[The Conversation Africa] It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of assessing what they’ve absorbed and retained. Students have to show and discuss how they arrived at their understanding of the subject. They can’t just rely on cramming,...

Science/Tech

FIC tightens crypto’s money-laundering noose

Today at 10:58 AM, via ITWeb

Government’s crackdown on crypto assets shows no signs of letting up, with the Financial Intelligence Centre the latest regulator to act.