Even though our schools are well-supported by a student loan scam pouring money on them in an ever increasing deluge, they always want more. A sweet spring of such funds comes from foreign students—they get to pay a “non resident” tuition penalty on top of the usual bloated tuition price. It’s particularly prevalent in graduate […] … learn more→
Author Archives: Kevin
Duke Professor removed for asking students to speak english
Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help
Artificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to process data and respond to changing situations, whether on the stock market or on a battlefield. But there are still some things AI isn’t ready for. We are scholars of computer science working to understand and improve the ways in which algorithms interact with society. AI systems perform best when the […] … learn more→
Majority of university students report poor quality sleep, putting them at higher risk of mental health problems
If you went to university – or are still there – think about your sleep while there. Would you say you ticked all the boxes for healthy sleep – going to bed at a reasonable hour and waking up at the same time every day, sleeping for around eight hours, and avoiding sleeping in or […] … learn more→
Once captives of Boko Haram, these students are finding new meaning in their lives in Pennsylvania
Of all the challenges faced by people who’ve been displaced, perhaps none is more important than to find new meaning in their lives. And so it is with the four young women who are students in a college prep class that I teach at Dickinson College. All four students were among the more than 200 Chibok […] … learn more→
Debate: How to make good use of school assessments?
What can be done when evaluations do not stop falling, be they international ( Pisa , Pirls or Timss ), or national ( CP, CE1 ), and that they are not very good? Should we deplore, with Stanislas Dehaene, the absence of a reaction of the “Pisa shock” type ? The disappointing performances of French students in recent surveys have most often had the effect of indignant […] … learn more→
Australia should start planning for universal tertiary education
Australia is often characterised as having a mass higher education system. In fact, it could be called near-universal. According to the 2016 Census, 56% of Australians aged 15 years and over – 9.6 million people – hold a post-school qualification, up from 46% in 2006. Universal education does not mean every Australian should attain a higher education […] … learn more→
What nobody tells you about ‘minor corrections’
In the UK system, the majority of PhD students pass their viva ‘with minor corrections’. Your examiners present you with a list of corrections, you go away and implement them. Easy, yes? Well, no, not necessarily. If you’re lucky, corrections are simply typos, formatting issues etc. So far, so good. Any thesis will inevitably contain […] … learn more→
«This site cannot be reached»: your first aid tips
“This site cannot be reached” is, maybe, the most frequent error that Google Chrome, Opera (and some other Chromium-based browsers) can face. It appears with the following explanations «server DNS address could not be found» and «Server IP address could not be found» and ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED code. The error has nothing to do with the version […] … learn more→
Leveling up in saying ‘no’
If there’s one thing that seems to dog many academics’ lives, it’s the inability to say ‘no’. We often find ourselves over-committed and frazzled with deadlines…and it can be a frenzy of our own making. I’m not talking here about being given inappropriate workloads or sky-high benchmarks to be met. These are larger structural and […] … learn more→
College prep for Generation Z
Generation Z is made up of those born between 1997 and 2012. They are the digital kids that have been raised with a device in their hand and a screen in their face, however, don’t discount this generation as an over obsessed bunch of tech addicts. Generation Z is proving to be a generation that gets the […] … learn more→
