Rachel de Souza says lack of female role models a bigger issue, after social mobility head said girls would ‘rather not’ do hard maths Read more

In a long Twitter thread on Thursday, a Marquette University assistant professor of journalism suggested young reporters may fabricate stories because newspaper journalism standards are too high and because minority reporters might feel racism on the job. Read more

Nepal is preparing to move its Everest base camp because global warming and human activity are making it unsafe. Read more

Despite falling enrollments, the higher education landscape has remained largely unchanged for the past half-century. Read more

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently published its second version of “Minnesota K–12 Academic Standards in Mathematics.” Read more

The awards were corrected, but the Education Department watchdog says more needs to be done to prevent future mistakes. Read more

The British public are not bitterly polarised over trans equality, according to new research, which found a majority agreed schools should talk to pupils about transgender issues and that one in four knows a trans person personally. Read more

Microsoft is finally retiring the consumer version of Internet Explorer. Read more

Minerva beats out several traditional powers, while a few unexpected institutions rise in other categories. Read more

The Oxford University Press this week announced creation of a new Dictionary of African American English project that will catalog the speech of America’s black residents throughout the nation’s history. Read more