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Reports on the misinformation about toilet paper roll shortage in the U.S. Reaction of consumers toward the news; Alternatives to toilet rolls.

The article focuses on the Journalist's Resource, a project rolled out at the Harvard University that aims to reduce the animosity between scientists and journalists and help minimize the chances of errors and misunderstandings making their way into press reports of research. The Journalist's Resource is a database of scholarly reports and papers with short, searchable summaries in clear language. Available for free, the service aims to specifically meet the needs of journalists.

Details the American Educational Research Association Conference held in Seattle, Washington, in April 2001. Concern over the fate of education research under the George W. Bush Administration; Problem over testing programs that determine whether American children are held back a year and whether failing scholars are taken over by their states or school districts; Presentation of papers on high-stakes testing.

The article discusses the plan of "Los Angeles Times" to publish league tables that rate the performance of thousands of individual teachers by name in the U.S. It states that the newspaper will reveal the rankings of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers based on their ability in helping students improve their scores on standardised tests. It notes the plan of the United Teachers Los Angeles, a teaching union, to boycott the newspaper, and calling the move as irresponsible and offensive.

Reports that Laura Spence, the teenager from Tyneside, England, who was rejected to study medicine in Oxford University, is studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The article focuses on punk academics like Mike Dines, who recognized the contribution of punk culture to academia in the U.S. It states that Dines co-found the Punk Scholars Network, which is associated with the journal "Punk & Post Punk." It talks about conflict in punk academics between maintaining punk identity and playing a part in an institution of formal education, explored in research paper "Being punk in higher education" by Tom Parkinson, and also shares strategies to deal with it.

The article discusses the paper of Jonathan Supovitz, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, that urge the American educators to adapt the English education system. Topics include the role of school teachers to manage the student behavior within a school, the difference between the teaching model in the U.S. and Great Britain, and the effort of U.S. education team to adapt the "Teaching Leaders", a program of Great Britain education system.

The article reports on the reaction of students on the painting made by student Mitchell and also talks about the benefits and shortfalls of school painting and face painting. Face paints are scientifically developedto be used on skin and should have minimal harmful side effects. School paints are thereby designed to go on paper.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the article "Psychic powers' paper pulled from journal after criticism," "Resits may not improve academic performance" and My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it."

This article focuses on a report from Thomson Reuters which claims that the share of U.S.-authored papers in top scientific journals has dropped significantly in 2009.

The article considers a warning from a study titled "The New Geography of Science" that the U.S. and Europe could face intellectual marginalisation if they fail to seize opportunities offered by the research power of Latin American countries. Scheduled for release in July 2009, the study warned that established research power is still ignorant of the increasing strength of the Latin American power. According to Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge, the region's share of the world's scientific papers increased to 4.8 per cent in 2008.

According to a European Commission (EC) report on the continuing transatlantic brain-drain reveals that U.S. universities and research jobs are attracting growing numbers of European Union researchers. The EC paper voiced concern that 75 percent of European Union countries-born U.S. doctorate recipients have no specific plans to return to the European Union (EU), and more and more are choosing to stay in the U.S. The most important reason keeping EU-born scientists and engineers abroad has been quality of work. Better prospects and projects and easier access to leading technologies were most often cited as reasons behind plans to work abroad.

The article discusses a research paper on the prevalence of hierarchical microaggression in higher education in the U.S., which references a study by Kathryn Young et al., published in an issue of the "Journal of Diversity in Higher Education."

The article discusses the 2014 briefing paper on higher education systems, published by the American Council on Education. It cites various challenges associated with language and cultural misunderstandings, faced by U.S. universities that intend to establish partnership with higher education institutions in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Topics explored include perceived benefits of international engagement between foreign educational institutions and complications of student exchange programs.

The article discusses a research paper on intelligence and religious and political differences among members of the U.S. academic elite, which references a study by Edward Dutton et al., published in an issue of "Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and compares social scientists with scientific colleagues.

The article discusses claims by British academics that the poor research performance of U.S. for-profit institutions makes them unworthy of being called university. It cites findings that since 1993, the University of Phoenix has produced less than 200 papers with 700 citations and is reported to have more than 300,000 undergraduates and over 60,000 postgraduates. It indicates that some not-for-profits universities produced little research but fulfilled research-like obligations.

The article presents the 2011 Leiden Ranking issued by the Netherlands-based Leiden University, which showed that the U.S.-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the top producer of highly cited papers. The ranking showed that Great Britain's University of Cambridge failed to rank in the top 30. The opinion of Leiden University's Paul Wouters on the rankings is also cited.

The article reports on the plan of biomedical funders Wellcome Trust from Great Britain, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from the U.S., and Max Planck Society from Germany, to launch an open-access journal focusing on the life sciences, in the summer of 2012. Reviewers for the new journal are tasked to complete the review process for submissions within three to four weeks. According to Robert Tijan, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, papers would be judged on whether they surpass a standard of scientific excellence.

The article reports on the result of a study by Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland which suggests that a publish or perish culture in which scientific careers rely on the volume of citations is distorting the results of experiments in U.S. states where academics publish more frequently. Findings showed that papers published in U.S. states are more likely to report positive results. The study support the hypothesis that competitive academic environments increase researchers' productivity and bias against negative outcomes.

The article focuses on ranking of Great Britain in terms of researches. A report of data analyst Evidence depicts that Britain has the largest number of research papers with 0.87% world share between 2006 and 2007 following the U.S. However, it notes that China is heavily investing on research and was increasing its production which suggests that China may overtake the position of Britain. Meanwhile, Britain maintains the second place for citations with 12% world share.

The article presents news related to education, as of May 2007. A Japanese teacher was dismissed and fined after being caught stealing toilet paper. A U.S. student's decision to urinate in a bottle rather than wait a short while to use the toilet, as requested by the teacher, resulted in an accusation of civil rights violation. British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, who created a dinosaur sculpture from toilet rolls, are helping Thornhill primary school raise money to build an arts block.

The article reflects on the proliferation of presidential libraries in the U.S. Presidential libraries could serve variety of purposes such as memorials of presidents' papers, exhibition area and shops to sell presidents' memorabilia. In 1974, the Congress ceased to fund presidential libraries from taxpayers. No universities are willing to house a President George W. Bush library due to the mismanagement and controversies in his administration.

Reports on the impact of the inaccuracies in the scoring of the Scholastic Assessment Test on college admissions in the U.S. in 2006. Number of papers that were scored inaccurately according to the College Board; Cause of the mistakes in the scoring; Plan of the Department of Education to investigate the mistakes and on other standardised tests given at various grade levels.

It is sometimes easy to forget what extraordinary events academic conferences can be. Ayako Yoshino, an English literature PhD. student at Cambridge University, remembers the first major conference she attended as an overwhelming experience. Fraternisation between sections is part of the point of the big conferences, and it makes some conferences more of a vital fixture on the academic calendar than others. For humanities academics, the Modern Language Association, is the major global conference of the year. Held just after Christmas, it is now seeking papers for its 2004 convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The U.S. government is expected to begin charging $100 fee to applicants for student visas for conducting more comprehensive reviews that are making it time-consuming and difficult to come to the country. The new fee would pay for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's new Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems database, which was set up after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to track student visitors. The American Association of Universities has objected pointing that the payment provision alone will further slow the visa process and the paper receipts can be lost, stolen or faked.

Reports on the academic plagiarism case involving Norfolk State University in Virginia assistant professor, Christopher Ngassam, concerning a research paper on the South African stock market with the data copied from a 1995 article about the Korean stock market. Periodical where the article, from which Ngassam copied the report, was published; Possible consequences of Ngassam's actions.

Reports on the allegations against four U.S. universities & colleges for falsifying academic papers to allow their athletes to compete in an athletics competition. Violation of rules of intercollegiate sports; Suspension of school sports officials for corrupt practices; Effect of the scandal on a national basketball tournament.

Reports on the inclusion of eleven education referendums on the November 2000 presidential ballot papers in six states in the United States. Importance being placed on education in the six states; Main reason why people turn to the ballot process.

Focuses on the trend among Canadian business professors of transferring to American business schools. Decline in the number of Canadian research papers published in top business journals; Overview on the difficulty experienced by Canadian higher education institutions in recruit retain faculty; Comparison of the salaries received by full-time Canadian and American business professors.

Discusses the science and mathematics learning projects in the United States of the Boston, Massachusetts-based education research and development center TERC. Includes the Pringles Challenge in which pupils attempted to send a single crisp in the smallest package across the US; Project to build propeller-driven cars made of paper.

Presents an abstract of a paper on rebuilding teacher professionalism in the United States to be delivered by a Stanford University professor at the `Re-Thinking UK Education: What Next?' international conference to be held in London, England on April 9-13, 1995. Need to involve teachers in educational reform; Details of the 1994 Goals 2000 federal legislation; Standards for teaching.

Reports on the paper by two Cornell University economists on the chances of children from single-parent homes to enter the top 50 colleges in the United States. Main obstacles in the children's educational goals; Problem with the assessment of parental income for grants or loans; Emotional aspects of the issue.

Relates a retired British professor's experience of teaching French literature in Stanford University, California. Comparison of American and British styles of educating; Readiness of American students to talk; Use of class performance and prepared papers rather than honors scripts; Broader education obtained by Americans due to courses outside their main discipline.

Reports on the questions raised on the costs of a computerized graduate entrance test for American students. Educational Testing Service as a monopoly supplier of graduate test; Income to be reaped from a computerized version of the test; Description of the test format using pencil and paper.

Reports on the dropping of charges against the Black Student League members who seized and destroyed copies of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania newspaper. Criticism of the decision; Reason for seizure of paper; Rash of attacks on campus publications.

Focuses on public-funded scientific research in the United States. Comments from Diana Hicks, researcher at CHI Research; Percentage of papers filed which were funded by public research; Production of scientific literature in Great Britain.

The article offers U.S. education news briefs as of August 4, 2017. Education councils in the U.S. have welcomed the U.S. government's promise to divert more funds to schools in the U.S. Research firm, Ofqual, has concluded that U.S.-based examiners are not following rule changes in the area of exam marking.