Kowtowing to politicians is shameful and wrong
If universities don’t assert their expertise, demands from ministers and industry will become ever more misguided, says Dawn Freshwater
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Dartmouth to pay $14 million in sexual assault case
Three professors accused by nine women of using academic powers to press for sex
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Australian funding plan means subpar universities ‘ceding autonomy’
‘Distinctive Australian’ scheme will ‘buffer out unintended consequences’, architect says
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Plan to ring-fence junior scholars’ research time scrapped
Early career academics dismayed to see 20 per cent threshold for independent projects and personal development dropped from UK guidelines
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German academia faces reckoning over lack of diversity
As in the UK and the US, universities face questions about whether their curricula feature enough non-white voices
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Women participate less in bigger science classes, study finds
Universities urged to reconsider use of large introductory lectures
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Authoritarian shift undermines China’s science moonshot
Stuttering reforms and party control of academics hinder country’s extraordinary scientific rise
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GSM students count the cost of ministerial experiments
Conversations with students at the failed for-profit provider reveal much about its business model and the Department for Education’s judgement, writes John Morgan
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into your email, the administrative shark returns
John Brinnamoor’s floundering doggy-paddle is no match for the voracious jaws of his university’s antiquated data-gobblers
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Australian performance funding approach outlined
Retention, graduate employment, student feedback and widening participation to guide distribution
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Leading German psychiatry researcher dismissed
Martin Keck, who led the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry’s hospital, is being investigated by Munich’s public prosecutor
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Former governor general named new Waikato chancellor
New Zealand university swaps former prime minister for Sir Anand Satyanand
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Journal’s plan to review preprints aims to kill ‘desk rejects’
eLife editor says radical shift would help readers judge the real value of research, not just where it is published
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Make states match federal investment, says US campus head
States have rolled back funding as Washington has stepped in – and this must stop, says Louisiana State president
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Half of papers describing psychiatry trials ‘spin results’
Overstating the value of an intervention could put patients at risk, say researchers