Academics need support to increase their policy impact
Improving policymaking is a vital contribution to society, but academics need more time and funds to do so, says Tom Sasse
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Could student mental health apps be doing more harm than good?
As universities try to demonstrate actions and developers sense an opportunity, researchers express concern about lack of evidence behind mobile tools
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What’s in a name? For PhDs, everything
Are you a student, a candidate or something else? Whatever title you choose can have an impact on how academia views you and how you see yourself, argues Jenny Mak
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Essay mills aim to help students dodge plagiarism checkers
Websites launch new services as they aim to stand out in an increasingly crowded market
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Does a university’s culture make it predisposed to cyber crime?
Higher education must reconcile its commitment to open access information with good cybersecurity principles, argues Martin Vincent
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UK universities raise pay offer for 2019-20
Ucea say new proposal increases pay rise ‘envelope’ to about 1.5 per cent, but UCU claims employers have failed to make ‘sensible offer’
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In Beirut, an American university battles intolerance
Incivility from US helps focus AUB students on need ‘to be the adults in the room’
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Gender equality and fairness is central to our culture
David Green outlines how his institution has successfully worked to close the gender pay gap
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US public universities eye big move into online education
After the collapse of for-profit colleges, big state universities see need and opportunity
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Australian research assessment captures flight to private cash
Skewed funding blunts government influence over what gets researched, expert warns
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Articles pulled after data fabrication in Cambridge DNA lab
Retractions in Nature and Science follow Abderrahmane Kaidi’s resignation from Bristol
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Research must solve social problems, says top EU policymaker
Jean-Eric Paquet tells university heads that there is now a ‘consensus’ that research must help deliver sustainable development goals
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Letters – 11 April 2019
Should UCU head be an academic? The general secretary of the University and College Union should be an academic (“Pension tactics central to UCU leadership race”, News, 4 April). A UCU leader should...
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New and noteworthy – 11 April 2019
A democratic black hole in Europe; London’s foundlings; how movies trash the environment; the poignant insignificance of life as lived; and morality for everyone
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Universities should be working for the greater good
Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true...