Universities too ‘reactionary’ on private college ‘challenge’
The head of a for-profit college has criticised “vested interests” and a “reactionary response to challenge” among established universities.
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Artificial intelligence can change the world: Zuckerberg
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most promising technology that can change the world, said Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday.
Dysfunction by design: How standards hurt buildings and cities
Personal heaters are a summer survival tool for many office workers chilled to the bone by hyperactive ventilation systems — an act of self-defense against an epidemic of overcooling that is wasting energy and confounding comfort in not only offices but also large shops, schools and other buildings.
Making way for the Three Gorges Dam: a photographer captures its immigrants
Locals start to move out of town in Wushan county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, 1993, one year before the construction started. Now this part of the old town is beneath the water
Frigid Pluto is home to more diverse terrain than expected
The most detailed look at Pluto's surface to date has revealed an unexpected range of mountains, glacial flows, smooth plains and other landscapes
Taking on Mandatory Arbitration
Education Department may restrict common practice of for-profit colleges that prevents their students from suing them.
Harvard Law School is ditching its controversial crest
Harvard University will replace the official shield of its prestigious law school which features the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder, after students objected to its racist associations
Universities spending millions helping academics buy homes
Spiralling house prices in Oxford, Cambridge and London mean that universities are spending tens of millions of pounds to help academics buy homes, Times Higher Education has discovered.
Pirating Papers
Study looks at the reasons why people pirate scholarly articles from peer-to-peer research sharing communities -- it's more convenience than ideology.
Chinese universities must forge own path on teaching enterprise
Chinese universities need to “break away from the utilitarian view of entrepreneurship” in order to create enterprising students who start their own businesses, an education professor in the country has claimed.
