Students of the Bloom Institute of Technology have filed a class-action lawsuit against the school. They say the coding boot camp, formerly known as Lambda School, advertised false job-placement rates. They also say the school engaged in unlicensed lending and … Read more
Last spring Dina Sosa Cruz sat with her parents and sister in the family’s living room and reviewed her options: a full academic ride to the University of the District of Columbia, or an apprenticeship in the insurance industry. The … Read more
Here are few suggestions. These will not resolve the problem completely (I think, nothing can), but might help to alleviate it. Auditors. These might be registered or unregistered. (i) Unregistered. The unregistered ones are easier to deal with (although, time-consuming). … Read more
The latest AI-related alarm: students around the world are using AI models such as GPT-3 to write essays, and getting good grades on them. I don’t condone cheating. But I think the availability of text generators will force changes to … Read more
“We are delighted that we broke the world record and brought it back to Germany!”, says Pavel Povolni, first chairman of the Förderverein GreenTeam Uni Stuttgart e.V. The window for breaking the record this year was getting smaller and smaller … Read more
This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It’s a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the “shitty … Read more
Part I: I got in Last semester I witnessed the worst cheating in a course I’ve ever seen. And, I’ve seen stuff. I’m debating right now whether or not to write my account of what happened. Leaning toward writing this. … Read more
Student volunteers and workers stock the shelves and take an inventory at the CARE food pantry at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.Credit: Melissa Golden/Redux/eyevine Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living … Read more
(Image credit: Tohoku University of Art and Design Blog) Every horological enthusiast should be enthralled by Tohoku University of Art and Design student Suzuki Kango’s astounding hand-carved wooden automaton clock. With over 400 moving parts, Suzuki’s senior thesis exhibition project … Read more
California student aid official Patrick Perry was beginning a routine check of federal financial aid records a few weeks ago when he came across a mystifying number: 60,000 more aid applications from a particular group of students this year than … Read more