Universities ‘contribute little to generic skill development’
Schools take credit for majority of literacy and numeracy development
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Higher education staff suffer ‘epidemic’ of poor mental health
The number of university workers accessing counselling and occupational health services has shot up, according to research which describes “an epidemic” of poor mental health among higher education staff.
High school and college STEM students build electric cars for kids with disabilities for free
A group of high school and college students from Connecticut have come together to build something extraordinary: Fully-functioning electric carts for families who may not be able to afford adaptive wheelchairs.
Division III school ‘involuntarily removed’ from conference because it won too much
A Division III athletic conference booted one of its founding members Wednesday, apparently because the school had become too dominant across multiple sports.
Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled
Facebook has published its latest "enforcement report", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.
Whose dissertation is it, anyway?
Balking at a requirement to upload a copy of his doctoral thesis to an online database run by library services company ProQuest, one student pushes back.
STUDY: White liberals’ sympathy for poor whites DECREASES after white privilege lessons, sympathy for blacks stays same
Professors and a scholar out of the University of Kentucky, Colgate University and New York University conducted a study on white privilege.
Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant
UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
First the worst? Lead authors ‘should take misconduct blame’
Holding ‘probably innocent’ co-authors responsible for research wrongdoing cannot be justified, say academics
Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
Discussions on how to address climate change have focused, very appropriately, on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those of carbon dioxide, the major contributor to climate change and a long-lived greenhouse gas. Reducing emissions should remain the paramount climate goal.
