Microsoft said in January this year that Teams, its online collaboration platform, was being used by over 100 million students — boosted in no small part by the COVID-19 pandemic and many schools ...

As a historian working in professional military education, I find myself in the awkward position of warning strategists and students alike against drawing too many lessons from history. As quick ...

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Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional death from injury worldwide. From July 2018 to June 2019, 276 people drowned across Australia – a 10% increase on the previous year. Among those ...

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Researchers have found that one key way to encourage intrinsic motivation to learn is by making classroom lessons relevant to students’ lives. This element is constant—whether we’re doing remote ...

Darius Partovi started taking classical piano lessons when he was 7, but he soon grew restless and gave them up. It wasn’t until COVID-19 shut down schools that he returned to his keyboard out of ...

Ian McEwan, slumped on a comfortable couch in the large formal sitting room of his Cotswolds manor house, dazzling early-summer sun filtering through the tall, narrow windows, tells me he has been ...

In “Lessons,” the hero is seduced by his piano teacher when he’s 14, then abandoned by his wife while he passively watches history unfold. Are these events connected? By Molly Young When you purchase ...