Martin Shubik, 1926-2018
Tributes paid to Yale’s pioneering game theorist
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Digital dashboards: built for the ‘phallic lecturer’?
Lecturer claims that myriad online systems in academia reinforce patriarchal dominance
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Prisoners to get bursaries to study at Cambridge
Serving prisoners on day release will be able to participate in initiative
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‘Nothing to support’ international administrators at risk
Former university administrator says she struggled to find employment after Turkish university was shut
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Few institutions have ethical criteria for international activities
Staff and academics with little ethical guidance make decisions on behalf of institutions
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Interview with Deborah Ashby
The president-elect of the Royal Statistical Society on stepping into Gladstone’s shoes, Florence Nightingale and why Brexit is nightmare for medical statisticians
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India may finally be getting serious about research fraud
A move to combat India’s love affair with predatory journals is an encouraging sign – even if it took a newspaper exposé to prompt it, says Pushkar
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Israeli restrictions on overseas academics are holding Palestinian universities back
A labyrinthine visa process and perverse decision-making are making life increasingly untenable for non-Palestinian academics, says Raja Shehadeh
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Open access will curtail profits but not quality or freedom
European funders’ beefed-up open access mandate sounds the death knell for subscription publishing, but academic Armageddon is no closer, says Lenny Teytelman
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The essay is failing us. Discuss
The ease with which essays can be bought and the difficulty of grading them fairly means they should no longer be used for assessment, says Phil Race
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Monash to sell South Africa campus to for-profit firm
Advtech to buy Johannesburg campus established by Monash in 2000
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Non-Russell Group degree ‘harms affluent women’s prospects’
Study finds women from the highest socio-economic group are more likely to be in insecure work if they attend university outside mission group than if they had no degree at all