How this college for inmates is going outside the prison wall
Nationally, nearly half of all inmates released from prison return there after committing another crime.
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Facebook tries to fix streaming violence problem with 3,000 new workers
Facebook Inc (FB.O) will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, in its most dramatic move yet to combat the biggest threat to its valuable public image.
FBI head ‘nauseous’ over his possible sway on US election
FBI Director James Comey has said it makes him "mildly nauseous" to think that he could have had an impact on the US presidential election.
J-Schools Dump Accreditor
Northwestern’s journalism school drops its accreditor, shortly after Berkeley did the same, echoing broader questions about the value of the process and whether it impedes innovation.
UK university donations surpass £1 billion for first time
The value of donations pledged to UK universities has increased by 23 per cent in the space of a year, exceeding £1 billion for the first time, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Europe.
Congressional budget deal wards off Trump’s wish list of higher ed cuts
A bipartisan bill to fund the government through the end of September protects higher-education programs that are under threat from the 2018 White House budget proposal
7 companies steering the self-driving car craze
In 2009, the first photos started to trickle out of a Toyota Prius outfitted with a bizarre-looking metal contraption on the roof cruising the highways around Silicon Valley.
China to launch Wikipedia rival in 2018
China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia.
Who Defines Expertise?
Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English. Many object.
US Congress rejects Trump’s proposed research funding cuts
US congressional leaders have announced a 6 per cent budget increase for the National Institutes of Health, just weeks after Donald Trump proposed for its funding allocation to decline by 18 per cent.
