For advocates of open research, these sorts of deals are potentially a good step. “It gets us closer to an ideal where everything is open-access,” says Michael Eisen, a geneticist at UC Berkeley and cofounder of the Public Library of Science, or PLoO, a major group of open-access journals. (He’s not involved in the UC […]
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Google has been spotted testing Q&A videos in the knowledge graph cards for universities. The videos feature university faculty answering common questions about their school. They’re quite similar to the celebrity Q&A videos Google introduced last year. Lily Ray recently shared an example on Twitter for the query “UC Davis”: Google’s rolling out a cool
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There are good reasons to increase funding to higher education in Ireland, but increased rankings should not be one of them, writes Elaine Burke. “Academics all over the world should weep for the destruction of the concept of the university that has occurred in so many places, which has led to little less than the
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Aurich Lawson / Getty In March 2018, nine Iranians were criminally charged for their involvement with the Mabna Institute, a company federal prosecutors said was created in 2013 for the express purpose of using coordinated cyber intrusions to steal terabytes of academic data from universities, academic journal publishers, tech companies, and government organizations. Almost 18
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Amy King was the first in her family to go to college, and she experienced firsthand the challenges of being a first-generation undergraduate. But when she got to graduate school, she found the adjustment even more difficult. King is now a licensed psychologist, but she still remembers how hard it was to explain to her
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Huawei’s strained relationship with some universities isn’t stopping it from offering research funding funding to others, a report said. Érika García / CNET Huawei plans to give universities $300 million a year in research funding, Reuters reported, after several major US institutions severed links with the controversial Chinese company earlier this year. William Xu, the
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NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — As part of their ongoing initiative to teach organizations how to self-promote across social and marketing channels, social media agency, fishbat, shares 5 reasons why universities should utilize email marketing to increase enrollment. It’s a simple formula: More applicants equals more potential students to enroll. However, for many universities,
As automation and other technological advances change the way industries do work, employers are finding they need employees equipped with a mix of technical and communication skills. This is a noticeable shift. Students graduating with STEM majors have, until recently, been seen as more marketable than their liberal arts counterparts, with some experts even wondering
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Share Tweet Share Share The day-to-day growing use of technology has forced the universities to change their traditional ways of teaching and learning, observes Rohit Prasad, Co-founder and Director, SRV Media Easebuzz. Rohit Prasad, Co-founder and Director, SRV Media Easebuzz The world has been witnessing a digital revolution since the middle of the last century.
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For entrepreneurs, the idea of crafting a unicorn company from the ground up is usually the dream. After all, that means the business has a valuation of a minimum of one billion dollars, and that’s a significant accomplishment. If you take a look at what it takes to become a founder of a unicorn company, there
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