Bias fears over Uber academic research programme
Critics claim that only ‘congenial’ researchers get access to ride-hailing company’s data, while academic co-authors have potential conflicts of interest
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V-c fears hopes of UK joining Horizon Europe ‘drifting away’
Others suggest government position on joining research programme is unchanged, while Cummings’ view may balance criticism of EU on research with openness to association
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‘TripAdvisor for peer review’ targets publishing bias
Text scans by artificial intelligence will flag inconsistent or unusual patterns in reviewer behaviour, says Wolverhampton professor
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The week in higher education – 2 January 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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2 January 2020 digital edition
Welcome changes: Scholars share their New Year’s resolutions
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New world disorder: the academy’s role in upholding internationalism
Rachel Kyte’s previous roles in supra-national bodies make the new dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of international relations determined to see the academy play its part in rescuing...
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Teaching intelligence: building a global community for pedagogy
Three academics in the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows discuss learning from colleagues around the world about how to improve teaching
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Australia must not pull up the ladder for poorer students
Student income support is increasingly insufficient and in urgent need of reform, says Dawn Freshwater
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Harvard teaching assistants end strike without deal
Union cites aspirational university statement as grounds to halt walkout
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Working after hours? It’s academic
Did they know it was Christmas? Research probes academic propensity for submitting work out of hours
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Who put the cult in faculty?
Academics’ battles with impostor syndrome reflect the difficulty of becoming truly accepted into the cult of academia, says Michael Marinetto
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Ministers urged to back, not bash, English northern universities
‘MIT of the North’ idea seen as ignoring imbalances in research funding that undermine regions
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A month to Brexit: how are campuses placed to weather the storm?
Latest data on income, staff and research funding show the key challenges facing UK higher education in the coming years
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Institutions must push harder to open science
Making participant-derived data available is not a panacea but, with careful support and management, it can improve reproducibility, says Jonathan Grigg
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Physicist wins employment tribunal over Oxford retirement rule
Judgment likely to reignite the battle over the fixed departure ages at the university and elsewhere