Australian scholars say improving response times make website “an appealing tool” for cheating, but findings are disputed. Read more

Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. Read more

For many administrators, the upper echelon of college rankings can appear as nothing more than glitzy showroom setpieces for the Ivy League and other elites. They may be left to wonder why these lists dismiss the vast majority of institutions that routinely support most of today’s college students. Read more

The money from the NSF grant could have paid tuition and other costs for more than 100 students. Read more

Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas miss classes and risk violence as Brazil’s police battle drug gangs Read more

The Biden Administration has proposed a new regulation to ban asynchronous learning for “career-based programs.” Read more

Senior leadership is beginning to view alternative credentials as a fundamental aspect of their enrollment strategy—and accreditors are listening. But costs, opaque data and unfruitful corporate outreach efforts have prevented colleges and universities from implementing the programs at scale, to name a few barriers. Read more

Can AI help restaurant owners come up with tasty new menus to tempt customers, or is this just a recipe for disaster? Read more

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry. Read more

Working-class undergraduates who juggle paid work with their studies are finding it difficult to devote long hours to their course, says Randall Whittaker Read more