Florida professor quits after graduate assistant’s suicide
Tao Li to leave amid ongoing investigations into 2019 death of Huixiang Chen
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EU-backed tool to combat cheating in online exams finally ready
‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out
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Teaching intelligence: how to encourage entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship skills can benefit students and society, but many universities aren’t giving the area the attention it needs, experts tell Anna McKie
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French professor free to harass hydroxychloroquine critics online
Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic
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Course closures ‘inevitable’ consequence of Westminster policy
Aston and London South Bank are latest institutions to shutter humanities and social sciences degrees
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Half of young people want earlier return for students in England
But poll finds opinion fairly evenly divided among general population
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Academics must stand up for their publishing rights
Be careful about what you give away in your excitement about signing a contract for a book, says Lennard Davis
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What are you reading? – April 2021
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Work to rule at Liverpool over ‘rank and yank’ cuts
Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores
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World Academic Summit to focus on ‘power of place’ post-Covid
Online event to explore how pandemic and technology are reshaping geography of global higher education
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Northern universities unveil £500 million technology spin-out plan
Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield join forces to attract private investment
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Nobel laureates share the secrets of their success
Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research
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Australian commercialisation drive hampered by lack of data
Lawmakers ‘desperately seeking innovation nirvana’ fail to buttress it with steadfast policies or durable statistics
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Some UK universities saw teaching contract jump as REF loomed
In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified
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For lifelong learning to work, students must own their educational data
Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer