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Three failed replication attempts but no retraction for HIV study
Science’s decision sparks debate about how journals should respond to concerns about reproducibility
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Racism in academia has major impact on BAME staff mental health
Providing mental health support that is appropriate and culturally sensitive is a first step in addressing the racism black, Asian and ethnic minority staff endure in academia, says Jason Arday
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Inadequate support ‘contributes to foreign students’ alienation’
Chinese students’ misunderstanding of their host society thwarts their efforts to integrate in Australia, says academic
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Many universities ‘going backwards’ on gender equality in science
Decline in female representation reported at four in 10 institutions covered by study
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ANU to host southern hub of Gillard’s female leadership centre
Former PM’s institute and Nobel laureate’s university team up to explore gender bias in leadership
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Students need to learn how trolls and bots stir up online divisions
Critical thinking is not enough. Students must be taught dynamics of social media, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren
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When Bishops Meet, by John W. O’Malley
John Cornwell wonders whether a major new Catholic council could help address the challenges the Church faces today
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Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective, edited by Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Aniko Horvath considers a collection that illuminates the deeper causes of the everyday irritations of life as an academic
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Making political interventions more effective
Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change
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Home advantage?
Top universities demand the best in the world as leaders. But when does a fresh international outlook outweigh domestic knowledge and experience?
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THE World University Rankings 2020: branching out benefits
Overseas campuses in Malaysia and China offer University of Nottingham students the global outlook necessary for today’s world, says Shearer West
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Exit wound: Jo Johnson quitting hurts PM and raises HE policy questions
John Morgan looks at why the universities and science minister’s comeback was so short and what his exit means
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Traditions of Death and Burial, by Helen Frisby
James Stevens Curl enjoys a brief survey of changing British attitudes to the saying of final farewells