(4 Jul 2023) In an unprecedented move, all of South Korea’s top research universities have come together in a call to boycott global university rankings issued by QS, saying the United Kingdom-based ranking organization has not heeded their claim that changes made to the rankings this year are not transparent and contain “mathematical flaws”. …
By designing an autonomous system that fed prompts to the chatbot, researchers produced a paper that was fluent and insightful. Yet they still have concerns. (7 Jul 2023) A pair of scientists has produced a research paper in less than an hour with the help of ChatGPT — a tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI)…
(4 Jul 2023) Britain’s Russell Group of research universities has published a set of principles that promote artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and use by staff and students. Universities are urged to adapt teaching and assessment to support the equitable and ethical deployment of AI, to uphold academic rigour and integrity, and to collaborate around evolving…
(5 Jul 2023) VUS, the leading education center in Vietnam, and leading global education company McGraw Hill today announced they will partner to introduce a groundbreaking Critical Math program, based on McGraw Hill’s Reveal Math, to pre-primary and primary children in Vietnam. This partnership brings together the expertise and resources of two esteemed educational establishments…
(25 Jun 2023) “Barefoot Gen,” which first appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1973, was adopted by libraries across Japan and became a library staple along with other study-related manga and Osamu Tezuka’s works, according to Emiko Takahashi, director of the Japan Library Association. School libraries began introducing manga in earnest in the 2000s. It…
(30 Jun 2023) The island of Sumatra and the sultanate of Aceh played a crucial role in the spread of Islam and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir) throughout the Malay world. A foundational name is that of ‘Abd al-Rā’ūf al-Fansūrī (ca. 1615-1693), one of the earliest Qur’anic commentators in the Malay world. His work, Tarjumān al-Mustafīd, represents…
(27 Jun 2023) The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report co-published by open access publisher Frontiers and the World Economic Forum has been presented today. The report identifies those technologies poised to have the biggest positive impact on society over the next three to five years. Curated by an international steering group of experts,…
(27 Jun 2023) Funder and publisher mandates, coupled with a growing emphasis on open science and reproducibility, mean that researchers are increasingly depositing data alongside their publications. Other scientists can use those data to drive new research. But not every journal requires that authors make their data sets available, and some authors decline to do…
(20 Jun 2023) Since its introduction nearly a decade ago, impact assessment for universities has been adopted in numerous locations around the world. With two recent announcements from international governmental bodies around the role of impact in future exercises – and at least another expected – we can observe several trends emerging. Read more…
(29 Jun 2023) Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009 following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License. This decision, made as part of a Terms of Use revision…