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Erudera, a global university and academic program search platform, is officially launching today. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Erudera aims to help students worldwide explore their higher education options, both at the institutional and program levels.

According to Erudera, its platform will allow students to browse over 23,000 university profiles and more than 64,000 individual academic programs. Registered users will receive customized recommendations based on their individual profiles, academic achievements, career prospects, and personal preferences, enabling them to customize their search of potential postsecondary options.

The site contains news updates on developments in higher education in Europe, Australia, the United States and other countries as well as statistics about higher education in a number of destinations. In addition, it includes the results of global ranking systems, and it

A key piece of OB-GYN training — how to perform an abortion — could soon be stricken from medical schools’ curriculum in states that make the practice illegal.

Why it matters: A Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would not only affect patients but drastically alter medical education and force young doctors to find workarounds to develop a skill deemed essential by professional bodies.

What they’re saying: “The implications for our field are devastating,” Kavita Vinekar, assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told Axios.

• “The politicization of our field has made the public think of abortion as a very separate thing from reproductive care when really it’s very much intertwined in what we do,” Vinekar said.
• “Abortion care is very much intertwined with miscarriage management, with pregnancy care, with overall reproductive care,” she said.

By the numbers: 128 of the roughly 300

South Australia’s Education Minister has apologised to the father of a teenage girl who was bashed by another student at an Eyre Peninsula high school.

The 16-year-old victim was repeatedly kicked, including in the head, in an attack that was recorded on a mobile phone, with footage shared on social media.

Police were called to the school just after midday on Monday and a 15-year-old girl has since been charged over the attack.

Education Minister Blair Boyer, who yesterday met with the girl’s father, today told ABC Radio Adelaide the girl was still struggling to recover from concussion and a black eye, as well as the emotional impact of the incident.

“When I saw the footage of the first

 

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant.  

 
So why do so many public school boards hide in the shadows?  

 
 
One of the shining virtues of public schools is the requirement that they be transparent and open to the public.  

 
And they are! 

 
But too often school directors do so in ways that are unnecessarily burdensome, equivocal or combative.  

 
Let me give you an example.  

 
I live in the McKeesport Area School District (MASD) – a community just south of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.  

 
When I heard my school board was considering a proposed district budget for 2022-23 without a tax increase, I wanted to take a look at it. So I went to the district Website and there was a link labelled:  

 
“Preliminary Budget Information for 2022-23 School Year.” 

 
I clicked on it and got this: 

 
“The Board of Directors of the McKeesport Area School District has prepared a Preliminary Budget