#Students

Yann LeCun

ylecun

I'm an immigrant.I came first to work at Bell Labs on a J-1 visa, because I thought I'd stay only a year or two.But I stayed longer and got an

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Glasgow University @UofGlasgow has reported 124 students testing positive for Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54268780 . This was entirely predictable. And predicted. I wrote this two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Roberts

Kath

kathleenkamacos

pro-tip: do not do this. Your paper will be wordy and seem less substantial. Here’s a better list of tips that will up your word count:https://twitter.com/lourdmontenegro/status/1305445897245921280 1. Use more examples.

Professor Jeremiah Honkleberg

AllPassingThing

Get your Leaving Cert Results and just missed out on college?Can't afford rent to live near your University?Find out how immigration has squeezed many Irish kids out of collegeBy driving

(((Mike Shaw)))

MikeShawLD

Teachers generally over-predict A Level grades. There's 20+ years of evidence of this in the form or UCAS application teacher predictions against actual results. I've seen it for myself over

Jackie Park

jackiempark

Covering @BlackAtAppState march with @em_broyles and @xanayraml for @TheAppalachian Now the group is singing the Black national anthem Group chanted “no justice, no peace” and the names of George Floyd,

Prof. Kate Antonova

kpanyc

I dunno how many hrs I've worked. If you count reading, thinking, editing my own ms, writing handouts to make my teaching easier, I've worked every waking hr I'm not

Dr Carol Campbell

CarolCampbell4

While priority for if/when to re-open schools must be #COVID19 evidence & ensuring safety; it is necessary to also consider changes to support teaching, learning, equity & well-being for 2020-21

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

There's a small but significant number of students who have not been helped at all by the govt u-turn.They've neither been upgraded, or downgraded. Because they have no grade and

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Wow, this story about Cambridge moving lectures online for next year really blew up, didn’t it? A thread on what it means and what it doesn’t.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52732814 Disclaimer 1: I teach

James Wallice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

JamesWallice

This month it’ll be a whole year since I was elected as President of @CardiffUniCons! Rather apt occasion to check out what we’ve achieved thus far! https://twitter.com/jameswallice/status/1118529780830359553 Our memberships

𝕂𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕣

kbeller

Woke up this morning with a heavy heart. Friends in public schools, it's ok to grieve the fact that we're not returning to buildings. This period of the school year

Bogdan Enache

bogdienache

* Disease prevalence = 1/1000 * Test false positive rate of 5%Q: What is the chance that a random person with a positive test actually has the disease?A question maybe

Goldie Blumenstyk

GoldieStandard

23 days ago, I wrote my first newsletter about the Covid-19 crisis, predicting it could be "black swan" moment for higher education as we know it.https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Coronavirus-Looks-Like-a/248219 At the time, I

Out of context Divij

indiansnowden

The extent to which science was made boring and exhaustive by the state board (maharashtra) and cbse is scary, it went from a subject that I (and I'm sure many

Robert Kelchen

rkelchen

I posted a thread on July 1 about how July was going to be a brutal month for American higher education. Let's take a look back at the month and