Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree

Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.

Google recently made a huge announcement that could change the future of work and higher education: It's launching a selection of professional courses that teach candidates how to perform in-demand jobs.

These courses, which the company is calling Google Career Certificates, teach foundational skills that can help job-seekers immediately find employment. However, instead of taking years to finish like a traditional university degree, these courses are designed to be completed in about six months.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html

#US #Google #education

Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with malware and talked to Russia when booted

Department for Education says: 'We believe this is not widespread'

A shipment of laptops supplied to British schools by the Department for Education to help kids learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register can reveal.

The affected laptops, distributed to schools under the UK government's Get Help With Technology (GHWT) scheme, which started last year, came bundled with the Gamarue nasty – an old remote access worm from the 2010s.

The Register understands that a batch of 23,000 computers, the GeoBook 1E running Windows 10, made by Shenzhen-headquartered Tactus Group, contained the units that were loaded with malware. A spokesperson for the manufacturer was not available for comment.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/21/dept_education_school_laptops_malware/

#Europe #UK #education #school #laptop #malware

#education #indoctrination

John Taylor #Gatto: The Underground History of American #Education.

https://schoolsucksproject.com/john-taylor-gatto/

Press PLAY to begin your journey. This video series is based on John Taylor Gatto's book, and arranged and edited by Brett Veinotte

Whether you're just now learning about John Taylor Gatto's work or well versed in it, this video series is a powerful and sharable resource. These videos consist of well-chosen excerpts from The Underground History of American Education, because they strike the root of the issues we see in American schools today.

The series includes eye opening accounts of Gatto's time as a school teacher, while elucidating the not-so-well-known history of modern schooling in America. Today's school critics and reformers stand on Gatto's shoulders, since it was Gatto who spent untold hours scouring through dry and bland writings of the architects of modern schooling to create this digestible and entertaining read. This is one of many books he wrote on the problems and history of compulsory schooling.

This playlist offers an ideal entry point into the work of John Taylor Gatto. It will also provide clarity for those already in the trenches of alternative education. This knowledge is of absolute necessity for anyone considering their own education or the education of their children.

#indoctrination #school

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza : Asma Mustafa a creative Palestinian teacher.

Asma gives children educational and entertaining lessons to alleviate the harshness of war.

Source : https://filastiniyat.org/
#Gaza #Teacher #Children #Testimonies #Education #School
27/11/2023

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza : Randa Contemplates Her Uncertain Future | UNRWA

"I lost 11 people of my family, but I don’t have time to think of them. You can’t just think of them because now you have to think of something more important, which is life basics."  Randa (17) was in her final year in high school, preparing for her Tawjihi (end-of-school) exams, preparing for  college abroad. Now she contemplates her uncertain future, questioning whether, if she survives, she'll find the strength to dream again.

#Gaza #Testimonies #Education #School
05/01/2024

#Linus #Torvalds censored any Russians from contributing to gpl #Linux #kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1500602-linus-torvalds-comments-on-the-russian-linux-maintainers-being-delisted/

"I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian
aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of..." Linus

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/

By the way, his father was a communist and even lived in Moscow for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Torvalds#Education_and_experience

https://t.me/NoGoolag/34083

https://t.me/NoGoolag/5566

#npc #censorship

🇵🇸 Reminder : Who Profits - The Israeli Occupation Industry

Since its 1967 #occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land, Israel has developed an intricate system of #oppression, combining military force, technology, #infrastructure, and regulations to exert control over Palestinian and Syrian populations and further entrench its control over #land and #resources. Populations living under Israel’s military rule are denied basic civil liberties and are subject to arbitrary repressive violence by the Israeli military, police force, and private security personnel.

In the occupied #WestBank, around 3 million Palestinians live within a complex mosaic of administrative areas carved out through the 1993 #OsloAccords. Under the Accords the West Bank was divided into three administrative areas (A, B, and C). #AreaA comprises approximately 18% of the West Bank and is nominally under full Palestinian control. Area B, comprising approximately 22% of the West Bank, is under the full administrative control of the Palestinian Authority(#PA) but under the military control of Israel. #AreaC, which comprises 61% of the West Bank, is under the full control of Israel through the Civil (Military) Administration in the West Bank. 

These areas are separated and surrounded by a system of #roadblocks, #fences, #walls, #barriers, and #checkpoints, as well as Israeli #settlements and roads designated for the exclusive use of Israelis. The movement of Palestinians between the separate areas is controlled by an elaborate #permit regime. Further, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza require special permits to enter into areas annexed to Jerusalem, and #Jerusalem itself. Permits are allocated by the Israeli authorities according to secret security and economic considerations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are blacklisted and cannot pass through any of the checkpoints, not even to #travel inside their own enclave to the next town or the surrounding area.

In #Gaza, around two million people have been living under an Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea siege since 2007. The movement of people, goods, and services in or out of Gaza is almost completely blocked, and ongoing military attacks cause mounting casualties and infrastructure #destruction.

#Population control and arbitrary movement #restrictions separate families, severely limit access to #HealthCare, #education, and employment, and hinder economic development. Israel also utilizes its force and technologies to surveil and intimidate populations, as well as to quell any form of political activity and resistance, including the routine use of lethal crowd control weapons and live fire on civilian demonstrators.

Collective punishments in the form of military assaults, house #demolitions, curfews, closures, and mass arrests are common. Presently, there are approximately 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli incarceration centers. About 1,000 are being held under administrative detention, i.e., without having been charged, tried, or sentenced.

Who Profits has identified three sub-categories of corporate involvement in Israel’s Population Control. Private Security and #Surveillance Technology refers to corporate involvement in Israel’s growing Private Security and Surveillance #Technology Industries. The Wall and Checkpoints refers to Israel’s intricate mechanisms of control, physical segregation, and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the #oPt. Specialized Equipment and Services, refers to corporate involvement in the provision of services and equipment to the
Israeli military and security apparatus.

#Palestine #Syria #WhoProfits #Apartheid #Colonisation #Occupation #PopulationControl #TheWall

Remember the time Robert #Maxwell formed a joint venture with Mc-Graw Hill and had his influence in the future of the United States #education system's #textbooks?

The L archive does.

https://archive.ph/20220317155829/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/18/business/mcgraw-hill-and-maxwell-form-venture.html

#schooling #epstein

John Taylor #Gatto: The Underground History of American #Education.

"...After almost thirty years of teaching in New York City's inner city schools, he was named New York City teacher of the year in 1989, 1990 and 1991, and that same year was also named New York State teacher of the year.

Later in 1991, he wrote a letter announcing his retirement from teaching titled: "I quit, I think” to the op ed pages of The Wall Street Journal stating that he no longer wished to, quote, "hurt kids to make a living".

Soon thereafter, he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall titled An Evening with John Taylor Gatto, which then launched a career of public speaking in the area of public school reform.

He then began a worldwide public speaking and writing career and has received several awards..."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL463AA90FD04EC7A2

https://odysee.com/@JoelW:2/History-of-American-Education---John-Taylor-Gatto---BEST-INTERVIEW!!:9

More
https://gtw.clipgenie.com/search?q=Gatto&sort=rank

#indoctrination #school

🇵🇸Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says | OHCHR

GENEVA – Israel has obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip, part of a widespread and relentless assault against the Palestinian people in which Israeli forces have committed war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, said in a new report today.

While the Commission paid special attention to the situation in Gaza, the report focuses on attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a whole, and in Israel.

12/06/2025
#Palestine #oPt #Gaza #WestBank
#Education #Schools #CulturalHeritage #ReligiousSites #History #WarCrimes #Genocide #Extermination #OHCHR #Report #UN