Education

Officials say ROTC students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, subdued and killed a gunman during an incident on campus. The students intervened as the shooting unfolded, stopping the attacker before police took over the scene. Authorities are investigating the circumstances, and the story has drawn wide attention because ordinary students, not police, ended the threat.

University libraries are being flooded by automated AI scraping bots that hammer their online catalogues and digital repositories. The CBC reports the sheer volume of bot traffic is slowing systems, driving up costs and in some cases forcing libraries to lock down collections. Librarians warn the restrictions could undermine the mission of open public access to research and archives.

Allegations of repeated grade fraud at Bangladesh's Chittagong Education Board are drawing attention, with claims that some students received the top GPA 5 result without even sitting their examinations. The story has circulated widely in Bengali-speaking online audiences, fuelling debate over corruption and accountability in the board's exam result system and calls for investigation into how such falsified results could occur.

A criticism circulating in academic circles argues that universities have embraced generative AI partnerships in a fear-of-missing-out frenzy, without consulting their faculty, gathering evidence on whether the technology is actually pedagogically useful, or considering the long-term impact on students. The commentary reflects a growing tension between university administrations signing AI deals and educators who feel sidelined in decisions affecting teaching.