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Schooling’s stagnation
Must try harder
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress. They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson
- Schooling’s stagnation: Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
- Teachers: The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
- Technology: Will artificial intelligence transform school?
- Soft skills: Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
- Back to basics: England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
- Schooling’s stagnation: Sources and acknowledgments
2024
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Technology Quarterly
Watching the watchers
Tools of the spy trade have changed and so has the world in which they are used, says Shashank Joshi
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Worlds apart
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
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The India express
With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton
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Technology Quarterly
A new prescription
AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too
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The long goodbye
The next 50 years will be different, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran in a special report
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Technology Quarterly
Where the internet lives
Users of the internet can ignore its physical underpinnings. But for technologies like artificial intelligence and the metaverse to work, others need to pay attention, argues Abby Bertics
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Move fast and mend things
The super-rich are hoping to get money to the needy faster, says Avantika Chilkoti
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The new economy net zero needs
It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored
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Unknown soldiers
Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page
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Homeland Economics
Governments across the world are rediscovering industrial policy. They are making a big mistake, argues Callum Williams
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Technology Quarterly
In search of forever
Slowing, let alone reversing, the process of ageing was once alchemical fantasy. Now it is a subject of serious research and investment, Geoffrey Carr reports
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The most personal technology
Demand for, and expectations of, in vitro fertilisation are growing. The technology is struggling to keep up, write Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta
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Battlefield lessons
The war shows how technology is changing the battlefield. But mass still counts, argues Shashank Joshi
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Cashless talk
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani
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A difficult new world
Everything about carmaking is changing at once. The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace, says Simon Wright
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Technology Quarterly
The ultimate supply chains
One of the foundations of modernity is about to be transformed, reports Hal Hodson
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Special reports
Insert coin
As video games move from teenage distraction to universal pastime they are following the same path as other mass media, says Tom Wainwright
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Frontline Formosa
Taiwan’s fate will, ultimately, be decided by the battle-readiness of its people, says Alice Su
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Erdogan’s empire
Approaching its centenary, Turkey faces an election that could decide its future as a democracy, argues Piotr Zalewski