Instruction in critical thinking is to be designed to achieve an understanding of the relationship of language to logic, which should lead to the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas ...

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course ...

Called Logical and Critical Thinking, the MOOC was developed by Associate Professor Tim Dare and Dr Patrick Girard of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts, and FutureLearn.

Given the diversity of this field, its students require high levels of critical thinking and logical reasoning to master the concepts. And so to foster these academic and real-world skills, debate ...

A recent study finds that teaching critical thinking skills in a humanities course significantly reduces student beliefs in 'pseudoscience' that is unsupported by facts.