Journal shares peer reviews of rejected papers with rival titles
BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections
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Psychologists reluctant to own up to research mistakes
Despite widespread recognition of prevalence of errors in psychological research, academics remain reluctant to own up to their errors
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Unconditional offers sell students short
Liz Carlile explains why the University of Sheffield has avoided giving unconditional offers to applicants who have yet to sit their exams
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Spain’s internationalisation efforts must move beyond Erasmus
The success in attracting Erasmus+ students must be translated into more far-reaching and economically transformative initiatives, says Conrado Briceño
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Erasmus students ‘only learn English’ on year abroad
Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds
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Stand-alone teaching intensity measure ‘could mislead applicants’
Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework
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Concern over timeline for Australian performance funding scheme
Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say
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Times Higher Education’s best book reviews of 2018
Matthew Reisz reflects on a sobering year in academic books that was thankfully enlivened by stories of Barbie dolls, chimpanzees and sex under socialism
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Success with minorities makes Maryland campus a topic of study
UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate
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Migrant academics more prolific than US colleagues but paid less
Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2018
2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university
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New Year Honours 2019: damehood for ex-Hefce chief executive
Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted
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Murder of dean who exposed fraud shines spotlight on corruption
One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand
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International students in Australia: less diverse, more converged
Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities
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Finding poetry in paper titles
Brian Moeran offers a collection of haiku using research titles from the programme of a recent academic conference