Race awareness training advised for university interview panels
Unconscious bias training should be mandatory for all staff on university recruitment and promotion panels to help eliminate potentially racist hiring decisions, a review has said.
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Unconscious bias training should be mandatory for all staff on university recruitment and promotion panels to help eliminate potentially racist hiring decisions, a review has said.
The Federal Trade Commission is "marking a line in the sand" with its first lawsuit against publishers that take advantage of scholars wishing to publish in open-access journals.
A vocational school in Nanning, capital city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said it does not have enough accommodation for students admitted to the institution this semester, because their number is "more than expected".
The judge who gave a six-month jail term to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman is to stop hearing criminal cases.
Plastics have boosted our economy because they are versatile, cheap and durable.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Floyd Green, says the Government, through the ministry, is working to eliminate barriers which continue to prevent qualified students from matriculating in tertiary institutions.
The school believes they prevent the 'free exchange of ideas'
A medical school building keeps its name at Marian University in Indianapolis, even after the man it's named for can't fulfill a $48 million pledge.
Presidio Graduate School (PGS) and Pinchot University, the two universities most distinguished for their sustainability management programs, announced they've joined forces, with San Francisco-based PGS acquiring metro Seattle-based Pinchot.
A group of big banks led by UBS (UBS) is planning its own version of digital cash, using blockchain, the technology underpinning Bitcoin.