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Masters of Education to be delivered in Singapore

In a new collaboration, Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) and the School of Education and Human Development at Bangor University have created a new Master's in Education programme.

Publication date: 19 June 2020

Coming of age in 2020 – the summer without exams or school proms

The transition from childhood to adulthood is marked by humans in a wide variety of ways across the world. Many of these “coming of age” celebrations are held at puberty. For instance, the filing of front teeth in Bali is said to ease the “sad ripu” or six evils of lust, greed, wrath, pride, jealousy and intoxication. In contrast, the Jewish bar mitzvah marks the point at which children are deemed to be responsible for their own actions.
This article by Isabelle Catherine Winder, School of Natural Sciences and Gwyndaf Roberts, and Vivien Shaw, School of Medical Sciences is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Publication date: 8 June 2020