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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3 million (N/A) 2016 Kirihara Shoten K.K. 380 million tally in 2014.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “University CS graduation surpasses its 2003 peak, with poor diversity.” Because “Pornhub cares.” ” Spoiler alert: humans.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. For more on this subject, see Brian S.