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How AI's language barrier limits climate disaster responses

A message appears online during heavy flooding: "This rain no be small o, everywhere don red." Someone unfamiliar with the phrasing might hesitate. But for people in Nigeria, this message is immediate and clear: the flooding ...

Study rethinks the dropout-crime connection

Dropping out of high school has been linked to higher rates of delinquency and lower socioeconomic status, but thinking of high school dropouts collectively, as one group, is a flawed belief that could be affecting interventions. ...

Does listening to audiobooks improve learning?

Whether it's documents in textbooks or fiction studied in literature classes, reading print remains a pillar in learning. But the audiobook craze opens up new possibilities.

Students prefer AI chatbots, until they know it is one

Do chatbots have a role in higher education? It's a question Joshua Lambert, an associate professor and biostatistician in the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, is pondering. He's turned to a group of his students ...

What learning English means to migrants

It is widely accepted that learning English is essential for many adult migrants who move to the UK. Yet in the last census, over 1 million residents in England and Wales reported not speaking English well or at all.

AI writes a research paper that passes peer review

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology has broken new ground ...

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Economics & Business
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Education
Q&A: How high school shapes future success
Education
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Education
Significant grade inflation may be occurring in graduate education, according to decades' worth of data
Economics & Business
If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
Economics & Business
Tourism work builds 100 transferable skills, study shows
Social Sciences
Community music education a key youth well-being strategy
Social Sciences
Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study
Mathematics
Mathematical framework maps landscape of student knowledge via short quizzes
Education
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Social Sciences
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Education
Research team examine ethical and methodological use of generative artificial intelligence in higher education
Social Sciences
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Social Sciences
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Education
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Simple vineyard growing practice impacts soil microbiome deep below surface
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Psychosocial safety pressures across Australian universities

A landmark report from Adelaide University is providing the most comprehensive picture to date of psychosocial safety across Australia's higher education sector. The study identifies widespread well-being and psychosocial ...

Pay gap among academics does not stop at university, says study

The pay gap between men and women does not disappear when they leave university, even with a Ph.D. In fact, immediately after obtaining their doctorate, women already start with an average disadvantage of 171 euros per month, ...