mobile phones

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has promised to ban ‘distracting’ mobile phones and now the Department for Education has published guidance.

The conviction of seven people for conspiring to smuggle drugs into jail has once again highlighted the problem of how to stop inmates accessing mobile phones.

The ban will apply during class, recess, and lunch, and schools will determine how they enforce it.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told the Conservative Party Conference she will ban the use of mobile phones in schools in England.

Computer scientists and electrical engineers have developed an affordable hyperspectral camera that uses both visible and invisible near-infrared light to “see” beneath surfaces and capture unseen details.

Apps drain 28.9 percent of smartphone battery power while the screen is off, according to the first large-scale study of smartphones in everyday use.

Whilst extra features can be great tools in work situations, they can waste time in the learning process, and can reinforce addiction-type behavior.

The Indian population using mobile phones outnumbers the overall population of the United States, as one in every two Indians own cell phones.