Rate My Professors is bad for student learning Feeding the belief that success depends entirely on external factors discourages students from taking responsibility, says James Wicks By James Wicks 15 August
Canadian medical schools pressed over shortage of family doctors Specialisation is revered and rewarded, leaving teaching institutions wondering – even with a promised federal infusion – how to encourage more generalists By Paul Basken 13 August
Schill named Northwestern president after Blank’s withdrawal Oregon leader and lawyer to succeed Morton Schapiro this autumn By Chris Havergal 12 August
Northeastern’s redrawn doctorate seeks to turbocharge diversity University hopes to build more diverse faculty by enriching PhD process with skills typically acquired in prolonged postdoc slog By Paul Basken 12 August
Delaware ecologist caught in fish research misconduct net As Science retracts a paper by a second James Cook alumnus, critics ask where they learned their craft By John Ross 10 August
Biden signs major US science spending boost Sparked by fear of Chinese technological competitiveness, Congress acts to double NSF budget with push for applied technology By Paul Basken 9 August
Can troubled campus police forces be fixed? One college says yes After a particularly jarring moment on its fraternity-heavy campus, US institution tries teaching officers about tolerance and listening By Paul Basken 9 August
Live-stream field trips to tackle access issues, says professor First driven by necessity due to the pandemic, broadcasting from ecological sites has many advantages, says academic By Tom Williams 9 August
US debt freeze feared to be raising risk for new students Long-term halt in loan repayment requirement – while Biden stalls on other protections – undermines key federal accountability method, experts warn By Paul Basken 9 August
My classroom has benefitted from military discipline – and pot plants Teaching English to military professionals who value relationships has been a breath of fresh air, says a former US academic 7 August
The college admission essay should be used as a cheating detector Comparing students’ writing abilities in subsequent assignments with this yardstick could help combat contract cheating, says Dave Tomar By Dave Tomar 6 August
Masks and mandatory vaccinations ‘halt class Covid transmission’ As US campuses relent under societal pressure on masking, results from autumn 2021 semester affirm value of basic protections By Paul Basken 5 August