Employers ‘to drive retraining demand’
Australian report suggests that business economics, not workers’ survival, will drive lifelong learning boom
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Active learning relies on experience more than space
Penn State’s Kyle Bowen says experience takes priority over space as students and instructors embark on more active approaches to learning
GAME OVER: RAs call the COPS on students playing video game
Resident assistants called the police on a group of University of Maryland students playing the video game “Quiplash.”
5 things we learned about urban transformation
Positive change happens in cities, but it’s often lost in a sea of bad news about air pollution, rising costs of living, traffic jams and inequality.
Human staff will always be needed, Amazon insists
Amazon’s warehouses will always need human staff, the firm’s chief robotics technologist has told the BBC.
What the freshmen are reading
Many common reading assignments this year focus on issues of diversity, free speech and immigration.
Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
Hampshire College ‘in danger’ of having accreditation withdrawn
New England’s regional accreditation body for higher education has voted to issue a public notation that Hampshire College is “in danger” of being found in violation of the agency’s standards, though it has deferred formal judgment on the school’s status until November.
Is College worth it? Yes
New study shows that, from a financial standpoint alone, earning a bachelor's degree is on average a sound investment.
