Dutch universities struggle to hit female professor targets
Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male
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Disney’s Donald Trump robot gets mocked
An animatronic version of Donald Trump created by Disney's roboticists has attracted ridicule.
Twitter suspends Britain First account that Trump retweeted
Twitter has suspended at least three accounts tied to far-right group Britain First, including one that had been retweeted by President Trump.
Almost 900 Missouri degree programs don’t meet productivity standards
Half of the nearly 1,800 degree programs offered at Missouri’s public colleges and universities are falling short of state standards for graduates and other measures, according to a statewide review.
China ‘will teach 500,000 international students by 2020’
China will be teaching at least 500,000 international students by 2020, a new study suggests.
OER Adoptions on the Rise
The number of faculty members choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks has nearly doubled in the last year, but awareness over all remains low.
Deans nationwide jointly issue ‘Tianjin Consensus’
The participants at the forums together promulgated the "Tianjin Consensus", which focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship education in universities and colleges.
Internet giants told: Accept cyber curbs to be welcome in China
Google and Facebook will have to accept China’s censorship and tough online laws if they want access to its 751 million internet users ...
AXA: 4C warming makes the world uninsurable
Insurance giant AXA has announced a quadrupling of its 2020 green investment target from $3.53 billion to $14.13 billion as the company's CEO warned more than 4 degrees Celsius of warming this century would make the world "uninsurable."
