Publicly funded research underpins much of daily life, from policy decisions to innovation and public debate. When research remains inaccessible, its value is diminished. Australia has made real progress on open access to research. In 2024, around 59% of papers authored by researchers in Australia were freely available online. Yet a large and mostly invisible gap remains. […] … learn more→
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What is scientific integrity today?
Scientific integrity is a widely accepted institutional priority. Beyond detecting and addressing scientific misconduct, most higher education and research institutions now share the common goal of promoting a culture of good research practices. It is tempting to place this culture in a historical perspective: the priority given to integrity today is only one moment in […] … learn more→
The loneliness of students who drop out: a few months of training and already facing failure
Three years after their initial enrollment in a bachelor’s degree program in 2020-2021, only 55% of high school graduates are still enrolled. In other words, nearly one in two young people experiences, at some point in their studies, an interruption, a change of direction, or a setback. During this period, the feelings experienced and the solutions considered […] … learn more→
Learning from mistakes: how to train students to bounce back after failure
In a traditional lecture-based system, the teacher is seen as the custodian of knowledge to be transmitted, and the result of this transmission is assessed through regular knowledge tests. Students often still perceive mistakes as failures rather than as opportunities for learning. But progress is impossible without making mistakes. The question then arises of providing students […] … learn more→
Does listening to a book help you learn better?
Whether it’s documents found in school textbooks or narrative fiction studied in literature classes, reading texts remains a pillar of learning. But the rise of audiobooks opens up new possibilities for approaches. Can we consider listening to literary works on the syllabus rather than reading them in the traditional way? And, if so, does listening […] … learn more→
Active Clubs are white supremacy’s new, dangerous frontier
Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture. Active Clubs frame themselves as innocuous workout groups on digital platforms and […] … learn more→
Can artificial intelligence correct complex spelling mistakes?
For centuries, before the advent of automatic spell checkers, proofreading depended on professionals such as scribes, copyists, copyeditors, typographers, or simply people with a good understanding of spelling. This continued until the 1970s and 1980s, with the advent of personal computers. Then, the way we wrote and corrected documents changed. Writing began to be digitized, […] … learn more→
New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their social media handles used over the past five years. The policy also requires these applicants to set their profiles to public. This move is an example of governments treating a person’s digital persona as their political identity. […] … learn more→
Deep reading in times of scrolling: how to read with intention again
We live surrounded by stimuli. Our phones vibrate constantly, platforms compete for our attention, and for many young people (and not so young people), reading a full text seems like a feat. As a university professor, I frequently observe that many students fail to fully understand what is being asked of them, not because of […] … learn more→
How to run an educational center with emotional intelligence
We know that without emotion there is no learning , but what role do emotions play in educational leadership? Although the concept of emotional intelligence began to be researched in the 1990s by authors such as Peter Salovey and Daniel Goleman , its application in education has gained momentum in the last decade. What once seemed “soft” or accessory is now revealed as the […] … learn more→
