Academic conferences lack tools to prevent sexual misconduct, discrimination
Study finds that over three-quarters of biology conferences do not have codes of conduct. Half of conferences that do have codes of conduct fail to mention sexual misconduct, and many do not include methods for reporting misconduct and consequences for violators.
Professors need to be entertaining to prevent students from watching YouTube in class
Students think it is instructors' responsibility to ensure they don't surf the web in class, according to a new study.
Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of of Teaching and Learning
Collegiate affirmative action bans tied to rise in smoking among minority high schoolers
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
College affirmative action bans may adversely affect the health of underrepresented minority high school students, according to the results of a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine. Between 1996 and 2013, nine US states banned consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. A new study in PLOS Medicine shows that the action bans had unanticipated effects, specifically resulting in increased rates of smoking among minority high school students.
Gender pay gap shrinking for some female university presidents
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
While serious economic and societal issues continue to swirl around the gender pay gap, new research published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows one area where this inequality is starting to disappear -- higher education. Researchers have found that the gender pay gap disappears at more prestigious universities.
Organization Science
International experts call for action for world's 450 million scabies sufferers
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
An alignment of researchers, health ministries and the World Health Organization has outlined the steps to develop a global program to control scabies -- the parasitic disease affecting 450 million people annually in mainly low-income countries. The paper published in The Lancet journal was led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in collaboration with the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies, the World Health Organization, researchers and the Ethiopian, Solomon Islands and Fijian Health Ministries.
Pre-qualifying education and training helps health workers tackle gender based violence
Gender-based violence (GBV) could be tackled more effectively by giving healthcare students wider and more practical education and training in identifying and responding to the 'warning signs' presented among patients they will encounter in professional life, according to a new study.
Trauma, Abuse and Violence
If you teach them, they will care
The next generation of nurses need the right tools to ensure that they are poised to deliver age-appropriate care and address the specialized needs of an older population. Researchers have developed and tested an innovative new curricular approach to educate undergraduate nursing students in geriatric care.
Nurse Educator
Study shows a decade's increase in education specialists in university science departments
Science professors go through years of training to learn about their field, yet they often don't receive any formal education in how to teach students about it. This new study tracks one way that university science departments are working to amend that. Over the course of a decade, the researchers found, the number of education experts in science departments in the country's largest four-year public university system doubled.
California State University Chancellor's Office
Change agents: Education specialists a growing force at CSU campuses
An SDSU researcher's study finds science faculty with education specialties are having an increasing impact in K-12 and undergrad science education.
News Release 24-May-2019
Odds of success
National Research University Higher School of Economics
The more a student engages with various activities on campus, the higher their odds of success post-graduation. According to a study by researchers from the Higher School of Economics, not only academic but also research and social engagement, such as participation in student organisations and events, can be linked to the development of critical thinking skills which are essential for general well-being as well as career advancement.
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