Image: Milorad Vučović Never before we have so desperately needed real changes in our schools, from top to bottom, and if you sincerely answer to the question, if you, personally, as a teacher are ready to change, the answer is more or less: No, even if you hear yourself uttering:...
The teaching of Science is in crisis- is stated several times by several people. The EU and the US are starting project after project to solve the problem, the programs (like the ones collected on the Scientix portal) mostly try to popularize the study of Science and scientific careers,...
Image: Shutterstock/Rawpixel In the UK we have four different education systems thanks to the UK being made up of four different nations. In Scotland we have always had an education system different to that of the rest of the UK. For example, our school leaving examinations, “Highers”, were first...
Mathematics is not a popular subject. Pupils tend to dislike it, especially when they fail to obtain the desired academic results, and it can cause anxiety and even phobia. The difficulties they find are not only due to insufficient knowledge of the elements of maths, but also to the...
Living in rural Iceland has never been easy. This is best demonstrated by Iceland’s population density of 3.1 /km2 compared to 73.4 /km2 in Ireland (which is rather smaller than Iceland) and 102 /km2 in Cuba (approx. the same size as Iceland). Living in Iceland has always revolved around the ever looming presence of death. This has also been...
On the 27th of May, I attended Finland’s science forum workshop in Heureka. Heureka is a science center that plays an important role on science education. It is located in the capital area and gathers lots of school pupils who attend workshops and exhibitions. The workshop I attended was...