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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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It is often thought that a young academic in any field publishes early and often, peaks after about five years, secures a permanent position and then gradually grows less productive until retirement. But the idea that scholars produce less work as they age could be little more than an unhelpful myth, according to new evidence presented by the University of Colorado Boulder.
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In this session from the 2017 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, the leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious universities compare the roles and responsibilities of their institutions in being global hubs and creating knowledge economies that span the world (set within the context of a recent rise in more nationalist political agendas).
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With all their wealth, prestige and history, America’s top universities still lead a sector struggling to expand success for lower-income and ethnic minority students, or to provide their graduates with career-ready skills.
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Sometimes it is deeply distressing to be correct. Until Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president on 20 January, all of us in the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) had hoped that our thousands of hours of volunteer work to archive federal environmental data and to monitor changes to agency websites, budgets and policies would be wasted time. But there is every sign that it was not.
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Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on a study people’s preconceived stereotypes about Twitter users.
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The leader of Johns Hopkins University said he is “simply dumbfounded” by the support Donald Trump has generated in the race to be US president and lamented that universities have not been effective at redressing “profound disillusionment” within society.
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Chinese students at top-ranking universities are less creative than those at less prestigious institutions, a new study has found, with the authors blaming China’s exam-dominated education culture and intense university workload. The research sheds further light on the long-running debate over whether Chinese graduates lack creativity and critical-thinking skills or if it is simply a comforting Western stereotype about a rising rival economic power.
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Global higher education access targets are likely to be missed, according to a study that found that women are at the back of the queue when university enrollment widens in the developing world. An analysis of higher education participation rates in 35 countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by University of Cambridge researchers detected “extremely low” rates for people under 25 in almost all of them: below 10 percent in 31 of the countries, and below 5 percent in 20.
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The Netherlands’ university association has defended the growth of English-language courses at Dutch institutions, arguing that it will “enhance the quality of education” and boost the country’s “innovative strength and competitiveness.” Figures revealed by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant last month found that 60 percent of courses at Dutch universities are taught in English, and this increases to 70 percent when only master’s degrees are counted. The analysis was based on 1,632 degree courses at 13 of the country’s research-intensive universities.
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How is the ongoing reform program in Myanmar impacting higher education? During a recent briefing in London, Kevin MacKenzie, British Council country director in Myanmar from August 2012 until this month, provided some answers.