Instead of abolishing tenure, what if we restructured it? The heart of the problem is that we’ve combined two separate skill sets into a single job. We ask researchers to teach, and teachers to do research, even though these two capabilities have surprisingly little to do with each other. In a comprehensive analysis of data on more than half a million professors, the education experts John Hattie and Herbert Marsh found that “the relationship between teaching and research is zero.” In all fields and all kinds of colleges, there was little connection between research productivity and teaching ratings by students and peers.

Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to lifelong struggles with weight and higher risks for cancer, heart disease and stroke.
The trend came as a welcome surprise to researchers. New evidence has shown that obesity takes hold young: Children who are overweight or obese at 3 to 5 years old are five times as likely to be overweight or obese as adults.
About 8 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds were obese in 2012, down from 14 percent in 2004.

The rise and fall of empires, the march of armies, the flow of trade routes, the practice of slavery — all these events have led to a mixing of populations around the world. Such episodes have left a record in the human genome, but one that has so far been too complex to decipher on a global scale.<br>Now, geneticists applying new statistical approaches have taken a first shot at both identifying and dating the major population mixture events of the last 4,000 years, with the goal of providing a new source of information for historians.

Larry Berman đã bay qua Việt Nam hơn 30 lần trong suốt 5 năm để thực hiện cuốn sách. Trong chuyến về Việt Nam lần này, giáo sư Larry Berman sẽ cùng First News xúc tiến và tìm đối tác để cùng thực hiện bộ phim về thiếu tướng Phạm Xuân Ẩn dựa trên những thông tin và dữ liệu mà ông Phạm Xuân Ẩn cung cấp.

According to a global survey report on consumer confidence by Nielsen, Vietnam is the most economical country in Southeast Asia. Specifically, 74 percent of the Vietnamese who participated in the survey said they would save money after they have covered essential living expenses.

Các hoạt động trao đổi giáo dục của VEF gồm ba chương trình. Thứ nhất là đưa sinh viên Việt Nam sang Mỹ theo các chương trình đào tạo sau đại học. Thứ hai, Chương Trình Học Giả, tài trợ cho các công dân Việt Nam đã có bằng tiến sĩ được cơ hội phát triển chuyên môn thông qua các khóa học, các hoạt động về nghiên cứu. Thứ ba, Chương Trình Thỉnh Giảng, hỗ trợ các giáo sư Hoa Kỳ sang giảng dạy tại các đại học hoặc các viên nghiên cứu ở Việt Nam.
Tính đến lúc này, Quĩ giáo dục Việt Nam đã cấp học bổng và hỗ trợ học vấn cho 466 sinh viên từ trong nước sang Hoa Kỳ.

Ở Pháp có một tổ chức thiện nguyện của du học sinh Việt Nam đã đồng hành với nhiều sinh viên trong nước hơn 10 năm qua, hoạt động bền vững như niềm tin của chính người sáng lập Quỹ: "Khi bạn gieo một hạt mầm tốt thì chắc chắn nó sẽ sinh sôi".

CHENGDU, China — Decades ago, the thousands of Tibetan-language books now ensconced in a lavishly decorated library in southwest China might have ended up in a raging bonfire. During the tumultuous decade of the Cultural Revolution, which ended in 1976, Red Guard zealots destroyed anything deemed “feudal.” But an American scholar, galvanized in part by those rampages, embarked on a mission to collect and preserve the remnants of Tibetan culture.
The resulting trove of 12,000 works, many gathered from Tibetan refugees, recently ended a decades-long odyssey that brought them to a new library on the campus of the Southwest University for Nationalities here in Chengdu.

JERUSALEM — A Spanish initiative that would offer citizenship to Sephardic Jews as a gesture of conciliation for Spain’s expulsion of Jews during the Inquisition has set off a flurry of interest in Israel.
Under the draft bill, Spain would offer citizenship to anyone, Jewish or not, whose Sephardic origins can be certified. The bill would also remove some existing requirements that include the need for applicants to renounce their current citizenship.
The legislation was first presented in November 2012 by Spain’s foreign and justice ministers as a conciliatory gesture toward Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors were expelled in 1492 in one of the darkest chapters in Spanish history.

The English chose to build their towns next to rivers. The French instead built on the ruins of Roman cities. A look at how these centuries-old decisions have impacted today's economy.
Jean-Marc Vittori (2014-02-18)
Cities that are accessible by waterways are more prone to high growth. In the year 1300, transporting voluminous goods by waterways was 10 times less expensive than by moving it by land. So these cities grew quickly. In 1700, 87% of English city-dwellers lived in towns that had access to naval navigation — inland or outland — compared to 58% in France. Thanks to a more efficient urban network, England managed to gather more precious resources to finance its industrial revolution.