Friendships that bridge across social class – “cross-class friendships” – can minimize middle school academic achievement differences that are based on the level of parents’ education, according to research from the UCLA School Diversity Project. As scholars of adolescent development, we examined academic achievement differences among 4,288 middle school students in California based on their parents’ education level. […] … learn more→
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Why it’s good for kids to have friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Infocalypse: the spread of hyperframes threatens society
We are witnessing the emergence of a new generation of disinformation that is upsetting our benchmarks. Indeed, concern over the growing popularity of deepfakes , or malicious hyper-trick, has led author and synthetic media consultant, Nina Schick, to announce an imminent infocalypse . Hyperchip are audio and video recordings of real people speaking and performing things they have never said […] … learn more→
What are the types of business applications?
Due to the continuous growth of business needs, entrepreneurs are increasingly investing in advanced IT solutions. Properly selected software can perform many functions that contribute to the competitiveness of the organisation and the efficiency of management. Developing business applications can facilitate access to information and streamline teamwork, and even minimise business costs. What is business […] … learn more→
Plan S will be a catastrophe for learned societies
A spectre is haunting arts and humanities scholarship: the consequences of open access. Policy decisions are being taken now, but within the next three to four years, these missteps are likely to have profoundly harmed entire disciplines and possibly wiped out some of our most cherished learned societies. Given the huge pressures faced by academics […] … learn more→
Heroes, villains … biology: 3 reasons comic books are great science teachers
People may think of comics and science as worlds apart, but they have been cross-pollinating each other in more than ways than one. Many classic comic book characters are inspired by biology such as Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Poison Ivy. And they can act as educational tools to gain some fun facts about the natural world. […] … learn more→
Making your writing authoritative – a citation revision strategy
Readers expect academic writers to know what they are talking about. We meet that expectation by grounding our writing in good scholarship – and making it sound authoritative. Authoritative. You can see the words author and authority contained within authoritative – and this is no accident as the threesome have the same origins. An authority is a […] … learn more→
Elite universities are falling short on their green promises
With the world’s annual climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow this year, you would expect the UK’s top research-intensive universities to be leading the response to the climate emergency. After all, they can readily draw upon expert advice. They should be showing the way to becoming zero carbon institutions. But ambitious targets drawn up a decade […] … learn more→
What is the role of the University in building inclusive societies?
The democratization of access to universities is an issue that concerns, to a greater or lesser extent, all countries and higher education systems. The number of students who began to attend universities from the 1960s grew exponentially. This changed the way of understanding this institution. Its reason for being was no longer found only in an elite […] … learn more→
Online exam monitoring is now common in Australian universities — but is it here to stay?
COVID-19 lockdowns were a huge disruption for Australian universities. With students unable to come to campus, many universities turned to “online proctoring solutions” to monitor students during exam time. Many of these systems rely on automated facial recognition or detection, often combined with human video-monitoring of students’ homes, leading to concerns about bias, inaccuracy and […] … learn more→
Erasmus — What insurance to choose for a students’ exchange?
Erasmus is one of the more popular programs offering the students’ exchange in European countries. The major target group of the program is individual students, but also the entire academic organizations may participate in the exchange. The paramount objective of this project is to promote equal opportunities and fair access to education for students from […] … learn more→
