Supervisors and gender shape PhD patenting track record
US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents Read more
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US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents Read more
Pupils in parts of England are likely to never have a teacher of the same ethnic background, in part because minority ethnic applicants are less likely to be accepted on to teacher training courses, research has revealed. Read more
Andrew Coats, the lawyer who convinced the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984 to allow universities to maximize football revenue, leading to a television-driven money-grab and today’s sweeping upheaval, now looks back with regret on the landmark case he successfully argued. Read more
The University of Antelope Valley’s accreditor cited high leadership turnover and low graduation rates. Read more
Joan Donovan, an expert in “misinformation and disinformation,” will be joining Boston University’s College of Communication this fall after she departed Harvard University earlier this year. Read more
Pupils in English regions dominated by grammar schools experience little or no boost in results compared with counterparts in other areas of the country, while exam grades among the brightest pupils may actually be lower, according to new research. Read more
The National Institutes of Health halted a $154 million research program intended to study “equitable health communication” and combat alleged medical misinformation. Read more
Under the new rules approved Wednesday, staff and faculty at Florida colleges can be fired if they use a restroom for a gender that does not correspond with their gender assigned at birth. Read more
"After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad," says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai. Read more
University of Southern California tentatively settles false advertising lawsuit by graduates of certificate programs, raising issues of how colleges value different students. Read more