Colleges face pressure from all sides to drop facial recognition technology
More than 150 college faculty members signed a letter urging colleges to drop facial recognition technology.
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More colleges eye AI to track, monitor students
There’s a growing trend on college campuses nationwide to use tracking apps on students to monitor their attendance and compel them to go to class, underscoring the ever-increasing scuttlebutt to deploy facial recognition software on them, too.
To pay for college, more students are promising a piece of their future to investors
One day in 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options.
England’s regulator consults on post-qualification admissions
As part of its admissions review, OfS also proposes options that could spell the end of unconditional offers and personal statements
Google asked to justify Toronto ‘digital-city’ plan
The "appropriateness" of Google's sister company's plan for a "digital city" in Toronto has been questioned.
Even ‘Valid’ Student Evaluations Are ‘Unfair’
New study says student evaluations of teaching are still deeply flawed measures of teaching effectiveness, even when we assume they are unbiased and reliable.
WMU student demands school apologize for white people singing ‘negro spirituals’
At Western-Michigan University, a student is calling out a choir performance for singing African-American spirituals.
Wake Forest offers ‘beyond whiteness’ classics curriculum program
A North Carolina university that recently made headlines for apologizing for slavery is in the midst of a program that offers a new take on the discipline of classics to make up for its history of “abusive and exclusionary” curriculum.
The best research strategy is to trim the strategy
Canada’s excess of directive funding programmes risks hobbling scientific imagination and progress, says Jim Woodgett
Coronavirus: Fake news is spreading fast
As the coronavirus - or to be precise Covid-19 - spreads around the world, getting accurate information about the disease becomes ever more important.
