Chinese students, tutors and experts differ on assessment ethics
Study is first to survey students’ views on how they are judged in the classroom
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Coronavirus: Social giants police web with AI as staff sent home
Major websites are turning to automatic systems to moderate content as they tell their staff to work from home.
Russia recommends higher education switch to distance learning
Russia’s ministry of science and higher education recommended higher educational institutions switch to distance learning from Monday, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.
Companies lend students a helping hand amid campus chaos
Students nationwide are being forced or encouraged to leave their dorms
Coronavirus-related dorm evictions likely to spur class-action lawsuits, law professor warns
Colleges that have been evicting students from housing to deal with a theoretical coronavirus outbreak on campus had better hope their contracts cover the surprise removal.
Loss of Camaraderie and Community
The cancellation of college sports programs has left students deeply dismayed about being deprived of an important part of their college experience.
Coronavirus: 3D printers save hospital with valves
A 3D-printer company in Italy has designed and printed 100 life-saving respirator valves in 24 hours for a hospital that had run out of them.
Einstein ‘not a good role model’ for budding scientists
People may be more motivated to pursue a STEM career by figures thought of as ‘persistent’ but not geniuses
Dartmouth College tells students to stay away
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth College is telling its 4,400 undergraduates not to return to campus housing until at least May 1 and to plan for the possibility that they may not return to campus at all during the spring term.
Students without shelter fear campus closings
Many international, first-generation and low-income students said they fear losing shelter, medical care and food as universities shut down their campuses in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared Wednesday a pandemic.
