How PhD assessment needs to change

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The field of audiomics combines artificial intelligence tools with human sounds, such as a coughs, to evaluate health.Credit: Getty A machine-learning tool shows promise for detecting COVID-19 and tuberculosis from a person’s cough. While previous tools … Read more

Bring PhD assessment into the twenty-first century

Innovation in PhD education has not reached how doctoral degrees are assessed.Credit: Dan Dunkley/Science Photo Library Research and teaching in today’s universities are unrecognizable compared with what they were in the early nineteenth century, when Germany and later France gave the world the modern research doctorate. And yet significant aspects of the process of acquiring … Read more