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California to community colleges: graduate more students or lose your funding
California’s politicians and educators are getting serious about how to solve an immense and vexing problem — the graduation rate at the community colleges.
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Belgium shop fined for discriminating against male job-seeker
A Belgian shop has been ordered to pay a man more than €13,000 (£11,726) in damages for turning him down for a job because it wanted a woman
Design is the key to the self-driving challenge
Companies are paying millions of dollars to hire self-driving vehicle engineers. But it’s the designers — developing the experience around the interaction between vehicles and humans — who could be the key to how smoothly (or not) autonomous vehicles enter society.
No laughing matter? Classroom humour treads a fine line
Funny jokes improve class cohesion and dud gags do no harm, study finds – but offensive quips can alienate learners
For students teetering on the edge financially, micro-grants help them finish college
Every semester, thousands of students drop out of college because they are a few hundred dollars short of being able to pay their bills.
Questioning the Evidence
A higher ed researcher cited by Betsy DeVos to justify dropping gainful-employment rule says her work actually backed more stringent standards.
‘Hasty’ funding calls ‘prejudiced against women and carers’
Academics claim that funding application deadlines are becoming tighter
What’s going on in the world of plastic?
I’m not easily impressed by advances in sustainable business — I’ve been watching them happen in fits and starts for three decades — but I’ll confess to being astounded by what’s going on these days in the world of plastic.
The Arctic’s ‘last bastion’ of sea ice is breaking up for the first time on record
The sea ice off the coast of northern Greenland is normally some of the thickest in the entire Arctic, with ridges of ice piled as high as 70 feet in some places.
Coffee delivery drone patented by IBM
A coffee-delivering drone that can detect when people are tired and bring them a drink has been patented by technology company IBM.
