Recruiting overseas talent getting harder, say South African v-cs
Economic barriers and power outages harming sector’s reputation, but some leaders say country is continuing to hold its own, despite problems
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More countries close to joining Horizon, says EU negotiator
UK and New Zealand’s long-awaited association will spur on talks with Canada, South Korea and Japan, according to Signe Ratso
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‘Narcissistic’ v-cs linked to declining university performance
Hiring committees should ‘measure the egotism of candidates’ for vice-chancellor roles, say researchers who compared leaders’ traits and institutional outcomes
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Run from the chatbots or embrace them? There is a middle way
I tell students that I want to make them my academic integrity collaborators, upholding the quality of their own education, says Kenneth Worthy
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Academics and leaders split on how to promote interdisciplinarity
All agree cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard, but researchers favour material incentives while executives want cultural change, study finds
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Zero tolerance warnings and legalistic responses won’t stem sexual assault
Victims need the certainty that worries and complaints will be listened to and that investigations will be fair-minded, says Owen Bubbers-Jones
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Room sharing with an international student ‘boosts grades’
US domestic students achieve better GPAs when cohabiting with someone from overseas, but study finds no effect on international students themselves
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Medical exam cheating in Pakistan demands tech and cultural responses
Apparently widespread use of Bluetooth earpieces by medical school entrance candidates in one province has forced a re-sit, say four researchers
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‘Rigidity the enemy’ for women in academia, agree Oxbridge v-cs
Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference
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Workplace skills courses on Coursera to count as part of degrees
Microcredentials designed by Google and IBM will add practical training in key roles to traditional academic offerings, says chief executive of edtech firm
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South African university participation stalls despite investment
Decade of poor progress means number of degree holders is barely above the sub-Saharan African average
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Police investigate death of Spanish researcher
Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab
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Australia defers crackdown on fixed-term researcher contracts
Union and employer association welcome delay to resolve ‘unintended consequences’
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No one gains if social media storms stunt research in contentious areas
Researchers mustn’t be obliged to second-guess which results might not play out well in public or with powerful interests, worries Tracey Brown
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Interdisciplinary action
If you get what you measure, then a new framework for assessing universities’ efforts to support interdisciplinarity will provide welcome impetus