Education

A new study suggests that traditional learning activities like making notes remain critical for students’ reading comprehension and retention, while also suggesting that large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, could be […]

Higher education is under stress. The highest-profile threat has been the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to several universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern.This post was originally published on this site

Forensic anthropological (the study of skeletonized remains in medico-legal settings) analyses and reports include diverse information that may help in establishing identifications, cause or manner of death determinations, taphonomic (post-death decay, destruction, or burial) alterations, […]

Under the title “Exploring Culture(s) of Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Review of Concepts and Pathways,” the project Culture of Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions (KuNaH) systematically analyzed the scientific literature on sustainability […]

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in different languages. However, a new paper from the Concordia Infant Research Lab shows that language […]

Last week, police confirmed four students at Victorian boarding school Ballarat Grammar had been cautioned over a series of “strappings” of younger students. This followed other allegations of hazings and abuse at the school, which […]

Students applying to college know they can’t—or at least shouldn’t—use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to […]

The Web of Science and Clarivate named Alliance researcher Christophe Béné one of the world’s top-cited researchers for the fourth consecutive year in the field of multi-disciplinary sciences.This post was originally published on this site

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the century. Her curiosity-driven research […]

Nigeria’s basic education landscape consists of public (government) schools and a diverse private sector. Private schools in Nigeria refer to educational institutions that are run by private individuals, religious organizations, foundations or business enterprises. These […]