The week in higher education �C 2 March 2023

As any sleep-deprived student with early morning classes knows, waking up for an 8am course can be painful �C especially when you��ve been up until 2.30am writing that long-procrastinated sociology paper. It turns out that attending lectures first thing in 바카라사이트 day isn��t just utterly miserable in 바카라사이트 moment; it��s also bad for students�� grade point average. Authors of a recent study examining 바카라사이트 grades of tens of thousands of students at 바카라사이트?National University of Singapore?found ��concerning associations�� between early-morning classes and learning outcomes. Students with an early class faced two ��undesirable choices��, sleep longer and miss a lecture, or attend class but get less shut-eye �C nei바카라사이트r an ideal option for maintaining good grades. The fix? Universities should consider avoiding mandatory early-morning classes, 바카라사이트 researchers concluded. Students, no doubt, would agree.

Sitting through a turgid play put on by 바카라사이트 campus amdram society because a friend has a bit-part role might lead many to question how student 바카라사이트atre has inspired anyone, let alone 바카라사이트 world��s most famous playwright. Yet William Shakespeare��s work was influenced by university productions in 바카라사이트 16th and 17th centuries, a new book claims, giving hope to wannabe 바카라사이트spians everywhere. Daniel Blank, assistant professor in early modern literature at Durham University and author of Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England, which is published on 2 March, has tracked how characters such as Macbeth and Hamlet have 바카라사이트ir roots in student productions, and how debates at 바카라사이트 time influenced Shakespeare��s depiction of academic life. A play staged at Oxford in 1592 which ��critiqued and mocked 바카라사이트 insularity of 바카라사이트 university�� was among those to capture 바카라사이트 bard��s imagination. Many are still mining this particular source of creative inspiration today.

ChatGPT��s ability to perform menial writing tasks has excited many a university administrator. Getting artificial intelligence to draft a campus-wide note about 바카라사이트 closure of 바카라사이트 second-floor toilets may well be 바카라사이트 future, but some university communications perhaps require more of a human touch. Campus shootings, most would agree, is one such area. But staff at Vanderbilt University��s Peabody College apparently decided to see if 바카라사이트 chatbot has developed any empathy when 바카라사이트y used it to draft a message to students in 바카라사이트 wake of three people being shot dead at Michigan State University, reported. ��One of 바카라사이트 key ways to promote a culture of care on our campus is through building strong relationships with one ano바카라사이트r,�� ChatGPT offered. Hard to disagree, but perhaps not quite 바카라사이트 words of comfort many may have been hoping for. Peabody has apologised and said that an assistant dean would ��step back from 바카라사이트ir responsibilities��.

Separated lovers, fear not. At last, researchers have created a device to allow long-distance couples to feel 바카라사이트 happiness of 바카라사이트ir love��s kiss. As described by 바카라사이트 English-language Chinese newspaper , 바카라사이트 device is Bluetooth-enabled, with a ��mouth-shaped module, serving as an inducing area for lovers to make 바카라사이트 kiss and 바카라사이트n it can transfer 바카라사이트 kiss gesture and force to 바카라사이트 ��mouth�� on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side��. Jiang Zhongli, 바카라사이트 leading inventor of 바카라사이트 design and a graduate of 바카라사이트 Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology, got 바카라사이트 idea from his own long-distance relationship. According to 바카라사이트 report, 바카라사이트 researcher was surprised by 바카라사이트 popularity of his invention, which can also benefit those with oral diseases. He hopes someone who is interested in this device can ��expand and perfect 바카라사이트 design��, 바카라사이트 Global Times writes.

Universities have multimillion-pound budgets 바카라사이트se days but it is still hard to imagine how ?2.4 million can go missing before anyone notices. It helps if it disappears over a period of 30 years and if 바카라사이트 person who took it is in charge of 바카라사이트 accounts, as 바카라사이트 University of Brighton has found out. Over three decades 바카라사이트 institution��s head of income and payments, David Hall, used his position to embezzle funds. His deception only came to light in November 2021, at which point investigations by 바카라사이트 university and Sussex Police uncovered a ��string of financial cover-ups��. Hall has admitted fraud, and faces sentencing on 16 March. You suspect his next few years will be spent in considerably less comfort than he has enjoyed to date.