The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP28) at Expo City in Dubai is attracting students, scientists and academics, especially from Africa, to a Greening Education Hub as a platform for educating first-time COP attendees – a laudable initiative, according to attendees as it will help empower the youth, in particular, during their two-week stay.
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The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP28) at Expo City in Dubai is attracting students, scientists and academics, especially from Africa, to a Greening Education Hub as a platform for educating first-time COP attendees – a laudable initiative, according to attendees as it will help empower the youth, in particular, during their two-week stay.
For more information, click here: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231204090603337
Cheating on college campuses has always been an arms race. But ChatGPT has upended the balance, and now no one knows for sure what or who is on the level. Is a BA worth anything if it’s all BS?
Scott Limmer has been a defense attorney in Nassau County for nearly a quarter of a century. Solidly built, with salt-and-pepper hair and a booming Long Island accent, Limmer is the kind of guy who can make anyone feel comfortable, including the criminal defendants who are the bread and butter of his practice. Or at least they used to be.
Cheating on college campuses has always been an arms race. But ChatGPT has upended the balance, and now no one knows for sure what or who is on the level. Is a BA worth anything if it’s all BS?
Scott Limmer has been a defense attorney in Nassau County for nearly a quarter of a century. Solidly built, with salt-and-pepper hair and a booming Long Island accent, Limmer is the kind of guy who can make anyone feel comfortable, including the criminal defendants who are the bread and butter of his practice. Or at least they used to be.
Canada will step up the verification of university acceptance letters as it seeks to prevent immigration by fraudsters who target international students, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Friday.
Canada is a popular destination for international students since it is relatively easy to obtain a work permit, but the student immigration system is rife with fraud and "perverse incentives," Miller told reporters in Brampton, Ontario.
Almost 65% of professors surveyed in Florida, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina would not recommend their state as a desirable place to work, says a survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which was released last month.
40% cited concerns about tenure, which has been severely restricted in these states, as well as bans on diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programmes.
The top of the latest Times Higher Education or THE World University Rankings, released on Wednesday 27 September, remains dominated by institutions in the United States and United Kingdom, with the University of Oxford from the UK taking top spot for an unprecedented eight consecutive years.
But the upward march of Chinese universities continues.
THE’s World University Rankings 2024 assess research-intensive universities across 18 calibrated performance indicators covering their core missions of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and internationalisation.
With the world halfway to the 2030 target date for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations this week urged governments globally to create solid national SDG policy and greater spending commitments. But the key roles of universities in advancing sustainability continue to be underplayed.
A political declaration – including commitments impacting upon higher education and research – was approved at the 2023 UN SDG Summit, held in New York on 18 to 19 September to mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards achieving the SDGs.
Universities and other educational institutions will need to adopt experimental and applied learning approaches to ‘education for sustainable development’ (ESD) to prepare learners to address the grand socio-ecological challenges of the 21st century, according to the International Association of Universities.
Academics still talk about “the job market” in the singular, as though only one exists. They mean, of course, the faculty job market. But there are many different labor markets, and increasingly, Ph.D.s are conducting what we call a “tandem search” — that is, simultaneously pursuing openings in academe and industry.