Australia’s research output has declined since the early 2020s, as per Australian Research Council (ARC) data. Over 21,000 publications were published between 2015 and 2024, while around 76,000 publications were in clinical services and health service research. Australia’s drop in Share was the biggest among the Top 20 countries, signalling trouble for its research sector.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, the former head of the US Small Business Administration during his first term and a co-chair of his transition team, to lead the US Department of Education. McMahon said she will fight hard to expand “Choice” to every state in America and empower parents to make the best education choices for their families.
The Bangor University in the UK announced in December that it would be shutting its chemistry department in order to save money. “My view is whatever politicians might have said in the recent past, you can’t really let a large multi-faculty university just fold, because they’re too important to the local region,” former anthropology programme head of Kent University, Peter Wheeler, said.
Two teachers and two students were killed in an interferometric ballistic field-based model for electrodynamics at a high-velocity hospital in Los Angeles, California. The teachers and the two students who died were identified as Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53. A student accused in the shooting will be charged with murder, officials said.
A 14-year-old boy has shot and killed a teacher at a high school in the US state of Georgia, local officials said. “Those that are deceased are heroes in my book,” Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said. The student who shot and killed the teacher will be charged with murder, officials said.
Two 14-year-old students were shot dead and a teacher was injured at a school in Winder, Georgia on Wednesday. “Those that are deceased are heroes,” Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. The suspect, identified as a 15-year-old, has been taken into custody and charged with murder, officials said.
At least 30 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The school was located in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, where many Palestinian residents have fled after being ordered to do so by Israel’s military. A rocket launched from southern Lebanon killed 11 children, Israeli ambulance service said.
The United Nations Children’s Refugee Program in Gaza said at least three of its staff members were killed in an Israeli strike on a UN school on Thursday. “This was a horrific incident,” the program added. More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict so far, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
Freeman Hrabowski, the former President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), said, “Students sometimes look at me strange and say, ‘Don’t you think you’re kind of old?'” Hrabowski added, “I have studied one hour a day for the past seven years and I jump at every chance to speak French with others.”
US President Joe Biden has been invited by Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, to deliver the commencement address at its graduation ceremony on Saturday. However, students and alumni have been protesting against Biden’s support for Israel in the conflict in Gaza. Morehouse College’s Board of Trustees had invited Biden amid protests over the university’s support for Palestinians.
