Many students give up sleep to get good grades: but research shows that students should do the opposite.

It's no secret that college students tend to reduce sleep to squeeze the most out of 24 hours. But this generation is different, and researchers are increasingly focusing on college students because they are one of the most populations lack of sleep. College students go to bed one to two hours later and sleep less per night on average compared to previous generations. As a result, 75% of undergraduates did not sleep enough to feel rested on five or more days per week, and 19% reported that sleep difficulties had an influence on academic（学业） performance in the past year.

The amount of sleep that a college student gets is one of the strongest predictors of academic success. Sleep plays a key role in helping students fix and Improve memories. while preventing drops in memory. Without sleep, people work harder but don't do as well.

Members of the Student Health Advisory Council(SHAC)consulted famous sleep researchers and gave suggestions to University Health Service（UHS） clinicians（临床医师） on how to address sleep with student patient. Here are some suggestions for UHS clinicians to consider in their work with students.

Encourage students to adjust(调整)wake-up time, as it may be easier to adjust than bedtime.

Emphasize( 强调)behavioral changes to improve sleep. Medicine is rarely. Students can practice relaxation techniques before bed to increase quality of sleep, avoid doing homework immediately before(or in)bed, and avoid TV and computer use before bed.

Encourage napping, Most students don’t get a full night sleep every night, and naps help them make up the difference. Research shows that napping for 10-45 minutes(before entering REM sleep)can increase performance.

Advise students to avoid caffeine, especially later in the afternoon or night.

Children may not be putting coins in piggy banks for much longer. With the move towards a cashless society, pocket money is going digital.

To reflect “the change”, many mobile budgeting apps for children have appeared worldwide, such as GoHenry, Osper and Gimi. These apps offer a simple money management service to children, often for a monthly fee paid by the parents. Parents can add money to children’s accounts, set limits and monitor transactions. Children can choose to save their money or spend it using a prepaid card.

These apps aim to teach young children financial concepts, such as budgeting, interest rates and income. For example, the Swedish app Gimi — 1.2 million users globally — has virtual savings jars where children can deposit money. Parents can pay children interest as they save. There is also a prepaid card that is currently available in Sweden only, but is expected to be launched elsewhere in Europe.

Philip Haglund, CEO of Gimi, believes the app can teach children responsible spending habits. “You don’t become better at money management just because you have a degree in economics. It’s more about the attitude and the relationship you have with parents’ money when you’re 6 to 12 years old,” he says.

But Catherine Winter, Managing Director of Financial Capability at The London Institute of Banking &Finance, warns people that while digital tools can help, there needs to be a more organized approach to financial education. The area should “have regular, designed classroom time and ideally should be taught as an independent subject”, she says. “Children would then have the right understanding to get the most out of both the apps and their money.”

With only a click of the mouse, rumors（谣言）can be forwarded between micro- blogs（微博）very quickly. As an example, recently, sensitive netizens discovered that some photos displayed on microblogs describing Beijing’s June rainstorm had actually been fabricated（伪造）.

Sina.com is one of the major Internet portals （入口）in China with hundreds and thousands of users, and a majority of celebrities and famous citizens have their microblog accounts on this portal. As recently as six months ago, the website decided to establish a specialized team to prove rumors and provide accurate information for its users. Tan Chao is in charge of the team.

“Before I took the job, I usually couldn’t identify what information was real and what was fake. But during the process of identification, we discovered that a lot of information was false, including fake photos, fake news stories and rumors that had been spread through microblogs.”

It’s not just website portals which are taking on fact-checking responsibilities, but also a number of civic-minded netizens, who recently set up a Rumor Identification Federation on Sina.com’s microblog system to help netizens identify fake information online.

Dian Zizheng is the team leader of the federation. He says they’ve publicized more than 150 pieces which contradict rumors, which attracted more than 10 thousand visitors within two months.

“We live in an age of new media, so we can’t use the old methods to prove rumors. We can’t wait for the media to prove the facts with related administrative（行政） departments and then release a formal announcement. We can’t allow rumors to run wild and then deal with it, we need to fight rumors while they’re spreading. I think that this is the best way to deal with rumors nowadays.”

Some experts say this displays the advantages of the internet compared to other traditional media. The open platform allows information to be examined and clarified by netizens. But experts like Ding Wengguo, President of the Journalism and Communication College at the China University of Political Science and Law says this self-correction function of the Internet is still quite limited.

“It’s still quite different to tell which information is true in such an open environment by just reading a number of different opinions on the same issue. This is something which we need to pay attention to. If society is flooded with too much false information, and it’s allowed to spread in such a fast manner, then people will be suspicious（怀疑的） of all kinds of information including important information from authorities. It also worsens problems relating to social communications and mutual-understanding, which in turn harms society as a whole.”

Experts suggest that the government should react more quickly in the Internet age. Once a rumor begins to spread, administrative departments should make announcements as early as possible to drive away rumors before they lead to bad outcomes.