From next year, universities will be expected to monitor whether overseas students are really attending courses.

Sally Hunt, head of the University and College Union, says staff do not want to enter the "spying game".

Overseas students will have to be fingerprinted, in a drive to tackle the problem of bogus colleges. (BBC)


ITHACA, N.Y. -- The American Medical Association journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has published a new study by researchers at Cornell University indicating evidence of an environmental trigger for autism among genetically vulnerable children. It is the first peer-reviewed study to positively associate the prevalence of autism to a factor related to the levels of precipitation in the areas in which children live....



Published in Science: how the brain decodes human voice and speech processes

Scientists from Maastricht University have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said.


Schools with high-achieving students, services for ESL families provide best learning environment

WASHINGTON—Children of immigrants who enter school with low math and reading skills have a better chance of catching up with their peers if they attend a school with high-performing students, well-supported teachers and services to families of English as a second language (ESL) children, according to a new study.