Education News

Teaching AI to speak India

Artificial intelligence can chat, translate and answer questions but only if it understands your language. At IIT Madras, researchers at AI4Bharat are travelling across India, collecting voices, preserving dialects and teaching AI to understand the country’s incredible linguistic diversity.

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13th BRICS Education Ministers’ meeting in Odisha to discuss key priorities

The meeting will deliberate on key priorities including early childhood care and education (ECCE), skill development, research and innovation, mutual recognition of qualifications and academic leadership

Cambridge to review process for hiring senior academics after Jason Arday resignation

Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who is part of the group, says Cambridge should not be "marking its own homework".

All schools in England to get pupil attendance targets, government says

The BBC understands schools will not be penalised for missing targets, but they will be monitored.

Student loan repayment rates an 'unsustainable burden', chancellor told

More than 120 MPs and peers have asked John Healey to carry out an "urgent review" of repayments.

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row defends his work

Prof Jason Arday admitted errors in his work but said he was not a liar after attracting criticism online.