Dependence on Tech caused staggering Educational inequality

AI can bring a third digital divide in terms of educational inequality: where the rich have access to technology, increasingly powered by artificial intelligence, and to teachers to help them use this technology as part of their learning, while poor kids just have access to the technology?

AI and the next digital divide in education

Cultural Environment contributes disproportionately to educational inequality in Ireland

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/inequality-opportunity-educational-achievement-western-europe-contributors-and

Economic inequality has been associated with reduced educational intergenerational mobility:

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/inequality-opportunity-educational-achievement-western-europe-contributors-and

World ‘going backwards’ on equal access to higher education

Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231006075137584

Class and Wealth, not merit, determine success in Ireland’s education system – Kathleen Lynch

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/education-inequality-class-divide-5216581-Sep2020/

New UNESCO Report shows how online education during Covid-19 created staggering educational inequalities:

https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/ed-tech-tragedy

The debate on the Irish Government’s funding of private schools rages on:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/10/24/should-fee-paying-schools-get-state-support-labours-aodhan-o-riordain-vs-former-principal-arthur-godsil/

One in five students at top universities consider dropping out over cost of living
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/12/one-in-five-students-at-top-universities-consider-dropping-out-over-cost-of-living?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

GRADE INFLATION: 9 out of 10 students in top universities get firsts or 2.1 degrees

New research shows that it doesn’t really matter what you do in university. What matters is getting in to the top universities. This is the hard part. If you get in you have a 90% chance of getting a first or a 2.1 degree.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nine-out-10-students-get-first-or-21-leading-universities

Education is no longer the key factor when it comes to social mobility in Ireland. Family wealth and inheritance play the most significant role when it comes to social mobility and home ownership.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/01/14/fintan-otoole-the-better-educated-each-irish-generation-is-the-worse-its-chances-of-home-ownership/?

Wellcome Trust study aims to use  peer-delivered problem solving and behavioural activation – two strategies found to help improve symptoms of mental health problems – as standalone early interventions for young people with depression.

https://wellcome.org/news/university-students-depression-mental-health-interventions

There is no patient-provider confidentiality with AI Therapists!

https://theconversation.com/your-ai-therapist-is-not-your-therapist-the-dangers-of-relying-on-ai-mental-health-chatbots-225411

In 2022, 18% of children aged 7-to-16-years-old and 22% of young people aged 17-to-24 had a probable mental health condition. 

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/urgent-childrens-mental-health

Yale-NUS introduces a for-credit “Resilience and Success in College” elective course for first-year students to help them with wellbeing

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240415151821371

Students in Ireland are left “lost” to deal with their own mental health illness

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/01/23/camhs-left-more-than-100-children-without-care-for-up-to-two-years-report-finds/

Charities are paying College Fees during the Cost of Living Crisis:

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/01/22/hundreds-of-third-level-students-in-receipt-of-charity-to-pay-fees/

PhD students discuss how to deal with anxiety

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/12/19/mental-health-issues-among-grad-students-shouldnt-be-taboo-opinion