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Discipline more effective than monetary investment in education: new research

Discipline in schools has a greater impact and is more important to educational performance when compared to monetary investment, a new study from Macquarie University has found.

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Challenges veterans face when transitioning from the battlefield to the...

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment-seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this...

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How scarce funding shapes young scientists

Ask any young science faculty member what keeps them up at night, and you're likely to get the same response every time: funding research. It is no secret that modern scientific research depends on...

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MIT professor creates reality TV series of his daily life

(Phys.org)—"What if the Kardashians were physicists?" asks César Hidalgo, an associate professor at MIT and director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.

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Scientists predict reading ability from DNA alone

Researchers from King's College London have used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance throughout school years from DNA alone.

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Yes, academics tend to be left wing – but let's not exaggerate it

The accusation that that academia is disproportionately left-wing and liberal is not a new one. Nor is the main thrust of the claim, in a report by the Adam Smith Institute, contentious. Many accept...

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A system based on data science to predict student dropouts

There is currently a 30 percent student dropout rate in Europe, according to Education at a Glance (EAG). In Spain, these figures are between the 25 percent and 29 percent. In order to create a tool to...

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A 'stranglehold' on the data that could help explain political extremism

The advent of social media has led to a vast increase in the amount of social information that we see about others' political behaviour and this has important implications for democracy, argues...

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Social media making academia more user-friendly

Ivory tower tweeters, Instagrammers and bloggers are using social media to break down barriers and make academic research more accessible to everyone, say Massey University academics.

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What else can fingers tell us?

According to HSE researchers, men with a high 2D:4D ratio (i.e. those whose index finger is longer than their ring finger) tend to be better educated. These findings have been published in Personality...

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New coral bleaching database to help predict fate of global reefs

A UBC-led research team has developed a new global coral bleaching database that could help scientists predict future bleaching events.

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Low motivation in parents results in academically unmotivated children

Whether parental help has positive or negative effects on students' academic outcomes depends on the motivation and involvement of their parents. Results of a study conducted by the Hector Research...

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Are we educating educators about academic integrity?

A study by Swansea University researchers has found that student academic integrity is not a core concept taught to academics in Higher Education.

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College attendance drops after widespread job loss

When states suffer a widespread loss of jobs, the damage extends to the next generation, where college attendance drops among the poorest students, says new research from Duke University.

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What factors contribute to academic success in students living in poverty?

High-achieving, low-income 12- and 13-year-old students report that several protective factors contribute to their academic success despite the presence of adversity: reciprocal peer relationships,...

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Academics on Google's payroll?

The Google Transparency Project, an arm of an organization called the Campaign for Accountability, released a study this month claiming that Google funneled money to hundreds of academic research...

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Does makeup make you feel smarter?

Does wearing makeup affect academic performance? The new study investigates the "Lipstick Effect" among college students.

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Improving students' academic performance—there's an app for that

A mobile learning app that uses game elements such as leaderboards and digital badges may have positive effects on student academic performance, engagement, and retention, according to a study...

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High achievers in competitive courses more likely to cheat on college exams

A new study finds that students who are known as "high achievers" and take highly competitive courses are the most likely to cheat on their exams. The article is published ahead of print in Advances in...

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One-third of PhDs lose interest in academic careers, but not for lack of jobs

There are growing concerns that the challenges of landing a faculty job are discouraging young science and engineering Ph.D.s from pursuing careers in academia. The assumption is the majority aspire to...

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Research to help students overcome study roadblocks

New research is helping academics understand factors hindering students from achieving academic success in the transition from secondary school to university.

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Academic performance shapes student social networks

Based on data from the VKontakte social network, researchers at Higher School of Economics and the Vienna Medical University have found a relationship between students' academic performance and their...

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Parents want more life skills to be taught in school

Parents want teachers to do more when it comes to teaching their children about social and life skills inside the classroom, according to a new report.

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Not just available, but also useful: we must keep pushing to improve open...

Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis became freely available online this week, and promptly crashed a server following massive public interest.

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UN panel agrees to move ahead with debate on 'killer robots' (Update)

A U.N. panel is moving ahead with efforts to define and possibly set limits on weapons that can kill without human involvement, but not as quickly as some human rights groups and other opponents think...

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Chance discovery of forgotten 1960s 'preprint' experiment

For years, scientists have complained that it can take months or even years for a scientific discovery to be published, because of the slowness of peer review. To cut through this problem, researchers...

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Fotis Kafatos, distinguished Greek biologist, dies at 77

Fotis Kafatos, a Greek molecular biologist who had a distinguished academic career in both the United States and Europe and became the founding president of the European Research Council, has died. He...

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A new law to tackle contract cheating and Essay Mills?

The academics propose that the new law should be applicable in many countries around the world and is described in a study "A legal approach to tackling contract cheating? " co-authored by Michael...

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Listen up! How to get your message across in just 60 seconds

Do you have something important to say, but find it hard to get people's attention?

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New research must be better reported—the future of society depends on it

Newspaper articles, TV appearances and radio slots are increasingly important ways for academics to communicate their research to wider audiences. Whether that be the latest health research findings or...

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