Posts Categorized: Science

It’s true that Shanghai, China, is long reputed to have the best education system in the world. Indeed, it’s known that on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings, China has scored the highest in every sector for the past five years, including in Mathematics, Science and Reading, beating high-power western world countries such… Read more »

In the United Kingdom, at least, the 2011-2012 period saw university fees jump substantially, no thanks to the broken promises of the Liberal Democrats and their leader, Nick Clegg, who actually made a pledge to freeze, lower or nullify university fees and subsequently went and gave in to the demands of the Conservative party in… Read more »

The east and northern regions of the world are often criticized, for lack of a better term, for a non-civilized view of economic and educative principles. But in recent years the world has seen a sharp turn in many of these countries and it’s been shown that these outdated, and frankly, bigoted views are reminiscent… Read more »

Despite what many may perceive as a highly developed institutional system, the western world’s education has often been criticized as ‘lacking stimuli’ and ‘non-engaging’ with sources frequently citing that a lack of gripping material, exercises and frankly downright one-sided historical reference sets has damaged the young minds of this majorly influential region of the world…. Read more »

Teach in Qatar: Teachers are on the move!   Dubai, Dubai, Dubai, that’s all we seem to hear when teachers call in to the office.  The crazy thing is the salaries aren’t as lucrative as they used to be and is still an expensive country to work in.  Anyone who is on the ground or… Read more »

SeekTeachers.com is delighted to receive feedback from a teacher we recently recruited in Lusaka, Zambia. Owen placed Shelagh in January 2013 and she is delighted with her experience. As previously blogged, teaching in Africa is FAST on the rise. Shelagh is a well seasoned international teacher who has experience of working in Africa also. Well read the below… Read more »

Teachers and most general people are not aware of the current economic system in the world. Both the UK and America are decreasing fast and the likes of the UAE and Africa are shooting up. Qatar was recently named the richest country in the world because of natural reserves like oil and gas. Nigeria is… Read more »

Africa, a land so vast, so urban, so untouched, with beautiful nature, wildlife and poverty in many parts with no scope for development. Well that’s the media likes to keep portraying!   It’s time to wake up teachers, Africa is on the move!   The SeekTeachers team recently attended a conference with the “Friends of Africa… Read more »

Human Rights in China   We often talk about Human Rights in the western world which often causes room for discussion.  However, when we talk about Human Rights in China, this is a very sensitive subject to discuss.   Here are some interesting questions for you: Do you think China has NO Human Rights and… Read more »

As you may know, Mexico is not all good. It does have bad attractions to it such as the gang crime and drug use, but where in the world doesn’t have these problems? England has the exact same problem and this is most visible with the rise of the London riots, where businesses that had… Read more »