Universities ‘must read applicants’ work to defeat impact factor’
Nobel laureates call for early career researchers to be freed from ‘publish or perish’ mentality
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Elevating college completion
Only about half of students who begin college actually complete their degree, which makes it increasingly difficult and expensive to brush the college completion problem under the rug.
Donald Trump is pretty sure he’s nailing this whole ‘President’ thing
On Wednesday night, speaking to a packed house in North Dakota, President Donald Trump seemed to suggest that this whole being President thing wasn't so tough.
Floating robot Cimon sent to International Space Station
An experimental robot with an animated cartoon face has been sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Surprise! Not all mobility tech is for cities
Every week I’ll bring you a column on trends, companies, policies and research around transportation tech.
A race against time to preserve University media collections
Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. Can they be saved?
Chinese language teachers in British universities look for further development
As the popularity of the Chinese language grows, there is urgent need to improve the quality of Chinese teaching as a foreign language in the UK higher education sector, participants at an international conference agreed Wednesday.
UK gets world-first national learning analytics service
Thirty providers already signed up to initiative, with another 30 interested in following suit
Bristol Uni students raise £1,500 to send cleaner on holiday
A cleaner at the University of Bristol has been gifted £1,500 after students crowdfunded the money to send him to Jamaica.
Hiding in plain sight: The carbon cost of everyday products
The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them will lead to widespread drought, disease and desperation in some of the world’s poorest regions.
