BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections

As the threat that climate change poses to civilization becomes clearer, more voices across the political spectrum call for governmental action to slow average global temperature increases and adapt to the impact on natural and human-made infrastructure.

The report released today also recommended the salary schedule be reduced from 30 steps to 25, which would give faculty at least a 2 percent ongoing increase. If the recommendations are accepted, faculty would receive retroactive increases of 2 percent to July 1, 2017, 2 percent to July 1, 2018 and a 4 percent increase beginning Tuesday.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming commonplace in computers and consumer electronics.

The number of candidates to sit the entrance exam for postgraduate studies from Dec 22 to 24 will reach a record high of 2.9 million, a 21.8 percent increase over last year, according to a report published by the education information portal eol.cn.

A College Republicans chapter at the University of Maine apologized for a “Deck the Wall” end-of-year party before it even happened after receiving complaints and “feedback.”

A security analysis of cyber-attacks against universities and colleges in the UK has discovered staff or students could often be responsible, rather than organised crime or hacking groups.

Many colleges send out videos to celebrate the holiday season. Here are some of those of note this year.

When Kimberley Martin attended college at Virginia State University, she was able to take out student loans to cover the majority of her costs, but every semester, Martin and her family would have to work out how they’d pay for the added expense of textbooks.

Examples included courses in which students discussed impeaching President Donald Trump, as well as an anti-Brett Kavanaugh pop-up course.