#Universities

gill wyness

gillwyness_econ

Unlike any other major country in the world, UK students apply to university with predicted grades, rather than actual exam results.Apart from being a pretty strange system, this also puts

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Trump absurdly claims that Portland has been "under siege" for "years." (As someone who has spent a lot of time in Portland I can assure you this is a lie.)

Jenn

geekgalgroks

And this is why ethics needs to be taught at ALL level in Computer Science and Computer Engineering departments.https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1384785747874656257 This is my alma mater. They messed up big time.This was

Marks Polakovs

markspolakovs

Silly at best, and downright irresponsible at worst.I'm not going to touch on the "universities become the care homes of a second wave" bit, because others have done that more

Walter M Kimbrough

HipHopPrez

A PLATINUM THREAD: When President Trump launched his Platinum Plan in Atlanta, he spent a few minutes discussing HBCUs. Watch the clip, and then read the fact check. 1/https://youtu.be/V4RR1jmoZYg Trump

Dr. Guendouzi ( The Cerebral Assassin )

fimiletoks

All these little kids coming out of their whatsapp groups to trend Obasanjo. You know nothing...- Railway = 0- Education = 0 killed Universities built his own- security = 0

Gavin Phillips

gavinjphillips

(1/7) Having consulted with library reps, I’m signing on behalf of @supc_uk. Members using our agreements struggle with the pricing that publishers force on them. This has been brewing for

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

Lots of students say they *feel* lied to/deceived about this academic year. But were they, legally? And what would be their rights if they were? There's lots of Consumer Rights

Patrick Deneen

PatrickDeneen

Some thoughts on campus culture, which I think echo a number of things @yhazony have been arguing. Most campuses have an overwhelmingly left faculty and administration, but a somewhat more

Michael Wara

MichaelWWara

Don Kennedy died today from COVID. He was a wonderful man and had world changing impacts on his students - I have missed him on many occasions since he fell

Mehreen Faruqi

MehreenFaruqi

Scott Morrison was at uni while it was free, but now he's hiking fees, cutting funding across the board and trying to take Government support away from struggling students!Find out

rach

spiceygorl

I know I said good vibes n all of that. And I truly mean it but there’s still some things to be rightfully angry about when you’re mentally and emotionally

Tovarisch

nwbtcw

"Working class" is not an indicator of income, education, manual labor, ideology, etc. You can financially comfortable or unemployed, teach at universities or work in a mine. You are working

Adam Alter

adamleealter

Big numbers are too much for the human mind to comprehend. An example: the best-selling book of all time is the bible (5B copies); the best-selling non-fiction book is A

ProfB

AntheaButler

As promised here's my thread on Campus Reform, right wing attacks on academics, and the right wing disinformation machine. Let's start w exhibit A So I had a thread yesterday

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab

saragoldrickrab

Very serious question: Is it very common for employees to have no idea how the business model of their employer works?If so, is this really an effective labor strategy? Followup