Costa Cruises is to release a new summer cruise on board the Costa Luminosa, permitting guests theprecise possibility to go to Moscow for a day. The ‘Jewels of the Baltic’ itinerary is to be had at some stage in August 2016, with weekly sailings from Stockholm. Costa Luminosa calls at Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, before returning to Stockholm. at …

An MBA is a 2-year semester-based course. During the first year, you concentrate on the subjects and topics that concern business management and administration in general. At the end of your first year, you will get to choose a subject for specialisation based on your preferences and your career goals. In this article we‘ll throw some light on the things …

Six universities around the world are developing a MOOC credit transfer system that would enable students to gain credit towards their degrees from online courses at other institutions. Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is spearheading the MOOC credit transfer initiative. Photo: Flickr/IMBiblio. Beckie graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Japanese, during which she lived in …

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed sending between 20 and 3,000 police to Burundi, where political violence has been simmering for a year, but warned that the government signalled it would only accept 20 unarmed experts. In a report, seen by Reuters on Monday, Ban outlined three possible options for a police deployment to the small landlocked African state …

] U.S. first lady Michelle Obama will join her husband, President Barack Obama, for his trip to Britain later this week, the White House said on Monday. The Obamas will attend a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip at Windsor Castle on Friday. That evening they will have diner with Prince William, his wife Kate, and …

Career development continues to be a large motivation for students to enrol in MOOCs, meaning demand for credit certification is growing. In response, a number of providers have introduced fees for a handful of course certifications and assessment services. The number of computer programming courses has grown the most over the past three years. Photo: Christiaan Colen. Natalie is a journalism graduate from …

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has likened the fear of cyber crime to the levels of panic seen during Cold War. Speaking in Sydney, Australia, he said: “We used to fear the atomic bomb when I was young, and you used to come home from school and sirens would go off for a test on every corner. “Now we fear all …

The pace of technological developments is set to increase at an unprecedented rate in the next ten years, but how this will impact learning environments, skills training and access to education was discussed by futurists and education leaders at the StudyPortals Student of the Future conference this week. Dean Zvi Galil addresses the delegates at the conference. Photo: StudyPortals 23% …

Gardening can educate children on healthy foods and combat obesity, researchers claim Getty Creative Children as young as four should be taught gardening skills as part of a bid to combat obesity, teachers have declared. Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool have voted to urge the Government to put gardening on the primary school …

  British finance minister George Osborne told voters that leaving the European Union would cost them thousands of pounds a year and sap funding for public services because it would do permanent damage to the country’s economy. In a move likely to grab the attention of many Britons, who remain split on whether to stay in the bloc, Osborne pointed …