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Around the World considers no destination too remote for education and online learning. Nevertheless, even we are surprised this week at news that the high-speed cables may soon even reach frosty Victoria Island<\/a><\/span>. Also in the weekly round-up: the people helping to get the news out of Syria and into the classrooms, and the meeting of the old and modern faces of cyber-security. Read on\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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SYRIA<\/b>: Syria Deeply <\/i>news website, which highlights the humanitarian crisis through in-depth, crowd-sourced reporting, is focusing on e-learning \u2013 helping teachers to incorporate news stories into their teaching (MASHABLE<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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AUSTRALIA<\/b>: an e-learning training programme is being launched by Anti-Slavery Australia to tackle forced marriage \u2013 an issue highlighted in many recent court cases in the country (SBS<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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RWANDA<\/b>: students have been equipped with smartphones and tablets and sent out to map their country digitally \u2013 a generation of investigative cartographers hoping to record and analyse wildfires, water quality and deforestation (PHYS<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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THE ARCTIC<\/b>: to find a sea route through North-West passage between the Atlantic and Pacific was once the holy grail of polar exploration. A high-speed internet cable is now set to follow in Amundsen\u2019s path, linking Japan, the UK, and many isolated settlements in the icy north (ALASKA DISPATCH<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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SAUDI ARABIA<\/b>: the Kingdom, where only 17% of the workforce is female, ranked 127th<\/sup> out of 136 countries on 2013\u2019s Global Gender Gap Report<\/a>, published yesterday. New reforms are being put in place, however; and now a partnership between the Princess Noura University and Pearson is to allow 12,000 University Students access to edTech (TRADE ARABIA<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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UK<\/b>: it was here that the first programmable computers thundered away to crack the Lorenz cipher. Now, 70 years later, Bletchley Park is getting a cyber-security update \u2013 with a computer learning zone and cyber-security exhibition (THE TELEGRAPH<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around the World considers no destination too remote for education and online learning. Nevertheless, even we are surprised this week at news that the high-speed cables may soon even reach frosty Victoria Island. Also in the weekly round-up: the people helping to get the news out of Syria and into the classrooms, and the meeting […]<\/p>\n

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