International students continue to choose Tokyo, with affordability seen as a major driving factor for it maintaining its No. 2 rank in popularity for studying abroad. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/japan/society/tokyo-best-student-cities/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #tokyo #kyoto #surveys #schools #students
For almost 20 years, Motomachi High School in Hiroshima has tasked its art students with interviewing atomic bomb survivors and then turning their harrowing testimonies into paintings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/23/japan/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-students-paintings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #hiroshima #atomicbombings #painting #students
@swelljoe @mos_8502 The nearest thing to that currently in existence is the Raspberry Pi—which, with 68 million units sold, *is* on that kind of scale. Except each new iPhone generation outsells it by more than an order of magnitude.
People who actually want a personal computer they can program are a niche market, albeit vastly larger than in 1982. And it's a good thing they exist, because most users of modern CPUs have no idea or interest whatsoever—it's just a phone to them.
@cstross “People who actually want a personal computer they can program are a niche market, albeit vastly larger than in 1982”
The roots of the #Mega65 lay in #CS #education with #students not being able to grasp the basics not because of lack of intelligence, but through the lack of exposure to basic computing hardware.
“By insulating new computer science and IT students from how computers really work, we may well be disadvantaging them, by preventing them from learning how a computer really works. It's quite the same idea as starting a mechanic on a simple old car, instead of on a nuclear submarine: make the important details visible so that they can be learnt.” — Paul Gardner-Stephen
<https://c65gs.blogspot.com/2015/12/is-this-first-academic-slide.html>
A group chat that teachers allegedly used to share illicit images of elementary school girls has reignited the question: Is Japan facing a systemic failure to protect children from predatory educators? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/teachers-students-sexual-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #schools #students #children #sexcrimes #mext #teachers #sexualharassment #childporn
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3/3🧵: as #graduation season is in full swing, #UK #students from top #universities are staging #protests in support of #Palestine. On Thursday #Cambridge #university students waved #Palestinian flags and/or #keffiyeh, wearing traditional dress at their graduation ceremony and demanded their uni follow Kings' example and #divest from #Israel & #genocide.
Students at ceremony taking palestinian flags out of their pockets or refusing to shake hands
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2/3🧵: a couple of hours later, an even larger #walkout was staged by the under/post grad #students of political & social science of #Edinburgh #university, leaving the #graduation ceremony hall mostly empty. The #uni now has a stark choice: the money from its financial entanglement with #Israel and companies that actively enable #genocide in #Gaza, or the money and the brains of its students. ✊🏽🇵🇸
Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
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1/3🧵: This is how #protest movements reach a #tippingpoint 🥲. #Edinburgh #university, a #uni that was named in the #UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's report about #Gaza #genocide enablers, saw its PhD #students walk out en masse from their own #graduation ceremony on Friday. Hear those who think they are the majority shout "shut up" until they come to realise the majority is loudly, clearly and beautifully supporting #Palestine and #divestment.
https://www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/7nhe6nfect3a9djkczclnakgp6m9zc
Video showing dozens and dozens of students leaving the graduation hall at Edinburgh uni
The average correct answer rates in the Japanese language and math sections of a national achievement test for students in Japan fell from the previous year, with students particularly struggling with writing tasks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/japan-national-achievement-tests-math-japanese-language/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mext #students #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools
From demonstrating how police create suspect sketches based off of witness testimony to showing how 110 calls are handled, the Metropolitan Police Department hopes its recruitment event will draw in more applicants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/tokyo-police-recruitment-event/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #jobs #students
Over 800 people were involved in cheating schemes over the past two years on an English test widely used in Japan known as TOEIC, the organization that runs the exam announced on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/crime-legal/toeic-cheating/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #toeic #students #englishproficiency
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The #Trump admin has declined to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.
The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump #Education Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.
#law #policy #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Trump admin offered little explanation, saying only that the funds were under review. It gave no timeline for when, or if, the money would be released, saying instead that it was “committed to ensuring taxpayer resources are spent in accordance with the president’s priorities.” The frozen funds are unrelated to the millions of dollars in cuts included in the domestic policy bill that squeaked through the #Senate on Tuesday.
“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for #students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school & summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally.