#Universities

Danny Kingsley

dannykay68

HEADLINES from ANU VC Prof Brian Schmidt on open access and rankings when speaking at a forum yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR3Hv7dnJ0&feature=youtu.be "By default everything we should be doing is open" 1/n "

acceptable expenditure

itatiVCS

I don’t know which white professors need to hear this, but DEI efforts should focus on race and ethnicity. Affirmative action has overwhelmingly helped white women achieve positions of power

Chris R. Langley

Chris_R_Langley

The govt’s HE ‘restructuring’ doc is a mess. But as someone who works at a university in a predominantly working class area, with a high proportion of BAME & first-gen

David Baker Fight Like A Flynn

IWasHrren

The key demographic that Biden beat @realDonaldTrump, in the 2020 election, was people with authority over determining who can vote, when they can vote, how many times they can vote,

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Modelling evidence (and experience from previous lockdown) suggests that restrictions will not bring R below 1 with the new strain unless we significantly reduce transmission from primary, secondary schools and

UMUCU

UM_UCU

Joint statement of solidarity from UMUCU and the Fallowfield Labour Councillors to students in Fallowfield halls:To the students of HMP FallowfieldUMUCU, the union for lecturers and support staff at the

Mark Corver

markcorver

UCAS predicted grades deserve more attention in resolving #alevel2020 problems in university entry. Correctly handled, they give accurate and testable estimates of what students with a firm offer would likely

వనమాలి

Humblefool_14

This was in 1988. Chinese SEZ's (Shenzhen,Shantou,Zhuhai,Xiamen,Hainan) All near ports. Max tax rate 15%,5-6 exemptions if invested in high-tech exports. Coastal cities (14) also followed the same policies. From there

Steve Conlon

stevenconlon

It’s bizarre to me that nobody has asked some hard questions of UCD about this. Prior to the launch of these two campuses in China there was an attempt to

Jia-Bin Huang

jbhuang0604

Have you ever wondered why papers from top universities/research labs often appear in the top few positions in the daily email and web announcements from arXiv?Why is that the case?

Bizzarro Bazar

BizzarroBazar

[THREAD 1/5] A detail I took of one of Gorini's petrified heads. Many people ask me why petrifiers never revealed their obscure formulas, often taking the secret to their grave:

Timothy Chester

accidentalcio

One of the real quandaries facing higher education today is the fact that our customers feel that they are getting an inferior product (remote, Hyflex, or Hybrid) and should pay

Mike Gow 高英智

mikeygow

#BREAKING (kind of - but read this). Further information on this story from @RadioFreeAsia . Yes, Hanban is changing its name, but more to it - and some information (yet

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

Setting aside the Hindu-Muslim thing, the core issue behind families wanting to control marriages in India is about caste, about closed access to opportunities, and an unfair socio-economic base.In a

John Warner

biblioracle

Yesterday, I was among the many folks on here tweeting with some distress over the news that U. Colorado is replacing tenured faculty with NTT instructors to deal with budget

Duncan Money

mininghistory

Yesterday I spent a happy afternoon in the @ASCLibrary looking through two boxes of material on #Zambia recently donated by Frans Verstraelen. This was a mixture of books, reports, leaflets,

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