Journals must stop blocking critical comments
Allowing faulty papers to go unchallenged damages integrity and threatens dangerous real-world consequences, says Peter Bowbrick
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Interdisciplinary questions: the academy’s most misunderstood fields
Public confusion is one thing, but some subjects provoke quizzical and sometimes dismissive frowns even among colleagues from different departments. Here, nine academics set the record straight about...
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‘Black students have often learned people don’t expect much from them’
Her long career as a psychologist and a college president has shown Beverly Daniel Tatum how crucial racial identity formation is and how overriding negative stereotypes about minority students’...
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Data sharing on Covid research ‘disappointing’, says EU chief
Just 9 per cent of coronavirus papers have made efforts to help replication of experiments, European Commission open science champion tells summit
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Wharton: ‘wrong’ pick for free speech job would mean ‘challenges’
Tory peer hopes for role in selecting ‘thoughtful’ appointee to free speech champion role
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Japan-bound overseas students ‘abandoned’ as border stays shut
Border closures, funding cuts and overnight classes have made life ‘unbearable’, learners claim
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Class suspended over ‘hoax’ anti-white racism allegation
Investigation, despite little evidence, seen as reflecting growing power of conservative critics of academia
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Public funding of US higher education shifts downward
Covid helps end eight years of average increases, with wide state variations
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More European staff leaving UK for universities abroad post-Brexit
Many EU academics also now likely to choose ‘simpler option’ of staying in bloc even after trade agreement, expert warns
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Universities grant administrators’ post-Covid home-working wish
Surveys reveal widespread support among professional staff for working remotely at least some of the time
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Asia University Rankings 2021: methodology
To reflect the region’s unique characteristics, we make adjustments to the rigorous and robust criteria that underpin THE’s World University Rankings to arrive at this year’s Asia University Rankings
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Universities should not swat the public intellectual gadfly
Alongside the academic edutainer and the policy expert, there should be room for the voice from the wilderness, says Michael Marinetto
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Melbourne revises free speech rules over transgender concerns
University broadens free speech exclusions on request of gender-diverse community
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Policy rethink urged as non-traditional students ‘become majority’
As marginalised becomes mainstream, Australian inclusivity practitioners are urged to adopt a mainstream focus