On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient enough. A “good lower-level manager,” according to someone long involved with arXiv, “but his sense of management didn’t scale.” For most of the 2000s, arXiv couldn’t hold on to more than a few developers.Continue Reading
“If we went on business-as-usual and admitted a normal class size, then we’d have students we couldn’t support in the program,” says Kimberly Cooper, a developmental biologist at UCSD and associate director of the biology PhD program. One of her undergraduate mentees wasn’t admitted to any graduate programs this year.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Half of the respondents in a university graduate employment poll who were unemployed six months after graduation had received job offers, Minister of State for Education Gan Siow Huang said on Friday (Mar 7). In this group, two-thirds were going to start work “in due course”, while the remaining one-thirdContinue Reading
One day in mid-January, California-based social media influencer Candise Lin woke up and found that hundreds of thousands of so-called TikTok refugees were suddenly flocking to Red Note, a Chinese social media app she uses every day. Lin doesn’t want to claim the whole thing happened because of her, butContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: All three Montfort Secondary School students in the viral video that made its rounds in February share some responsibility for the incident, and will receive “appropriate punishment”, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Monday (Mar 3). In the video, which was posted on Facebook on Feb 22, aContinue Reading
WHAT IS “NECESSARY”? For our family, tuition is necessary when my children are unable to attain the results they want in spite of their best efforts. Perhaps they lack the correct answering skills, or have some serious misunderstandings that they simply cannot clear up with help from their school teachers.Continue Reading
As Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency rampage through United States federal institutions, WIRED reported extensively this week on DOGE’s members, activity, and digital access to some of the US government’s most delicate and critical software systems. One DOGE technologist, 19-year-old high school graduate Edward Coristine, establishedContinue Reading
Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the country have employed a pervasive pattern of obfuscation that leaves the real victims in the dark, an investigation by The 74 shows. An in-depth analysis chronicling more than 300Continue Reading
2023 INCIDENT After the alleged assault incident came to light online, the mother of an Admiralty Secondary School student who took her own life in 2023 took to Facebook to speak out against bullying. Addressing the incident on Tuesday, Mr Chan reiterated MOE’s condolences, and stressed that the causes andContinue Reading
