Hands-off visa processing ‘skewing enrolments’
Low risk rating reflects ‘cursory’ scrutiny for fraud, former Australian immigration official warns
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The rising tide of the blue economy
Forget green. The next clean economy is blue. Blue, as in the deep blue sea.
Baby boomers back on campus as US universities surf silver wave
Retirees increasingly being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students
Microsoft Word AI ‘to improve writing’
A new feature in Microsoft's Word aims to help improve writing beyond the usual grammar fixes.
End of the Line for Much-Hyped Tech Company
After failing to live up to the expectations it (self-)generated, the adaptive learning company Knewton goes out not with a bang but with a whimper.
College students turn to THERAPY DONKEYS to help them de-stress
The State University of New York-Plattsburgh had therapy donkeys to help students de-stress ahead of finals.
In Iowa, a quicker, cheaper path to a college degree is easy as 2+2, 3+1 or 3+3
The typical path to a college degree in Iowa increasingly is branching off, taking detours and merging with others as public universities, community colleges and private schools find more ways to collaborate and cooperate in their degree and transfer options.
Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’
Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’
Scientists have declared a biodiversity crisis — here’s what that means for business
It's not often that environmental news even gets close to trumping the arrival of a royal baby. But fresh in the wake of Extinction Rebellion protests, the declaration of a "climate emergency," the publication of the Committee on Climate Change's Net Zero report and a surge in electoral support for the Green Party, some news outlets grasped which way the wind is blowing.
Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m
Hackers have stolen $41m (£31m) worth of Bitcoin in a major crypto-currency heist.
