University student creates first aid kit for mental health
Tina Chan developed the PASS Kit after experiencing anxiety and depression while at college. The University of Waterloo in Canada now provides a kit to all first-year students.
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Global education X-Prize awards $10m
Two teams are sharing a $10m (£7.8m) prize for advancing education among some of the world's poorest children.
The day the e-books stopped working
Consumers who bought ebooks via Microsoft's online store are losing access to their libraries.
Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine
A watchdog has penalised a local authority for trialling facial recognition on high-school students in Sweden to keep track of attendance.
Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?
The last decade was a big one for artificial intelligence but researchers in the field believe that the industry is about to enter a new phase.
Firefly’s school apps struggle with ‘unprecedented demand’
A leading provider of remote-learning tech to schools says it has struggled with record demand, causing its service to run slowly and suffer periods of being offline.
How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco
A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom after a covert negotiation witnessed by BBC News.
Blackbaud Hack: Universities lose data to ransomware attack
At least eight universities in the UK and Canada have had data stolen about students and/or alumni after hackers attacked a cloud computing provider.
The algorithms that make big decisions about your life
Thousands of students in England are angry about the controversial use of an algorithm to determine this year's GCSE and A-level results.
A-levels: Ofqual’s ‘cheating’ algorithm under review
The national statistics regulator is stepping in to review the algorithm used by Ofqual to decide A-level grades for students who could not sit exams.
