Detect fraud earlier to avoid red faces later, say Roger Watson and Mark Hayter
Universities should vet research outputs before they get to the publishing (and scandal) stage, say Roger Watson and Mark Hayter
Universities should vet research outputs before they get to the publishing (and scandal) stage, say Roger Watson and Mark Hayter
Academic’s ‘formidable expertise and knowledge’ and ‘unique voice’ remembered
Poll reveals how once ‘non-existent’ path to top tier of academia has now become ‘common’
The AI chatbot may soon kill the undergraduate essay, but its transformation of research could be equally seismic. Jack Grove examines how ChatGPT is already disrupting scholarly practices and where...
While some scholars still distrust the Free Speech Union and its founder, it is difficult to ignore the important support that it provides academics under attack, says Roger Watson
People must be treated fairly, but endless box-ticking is not the way to ensure this, say Roger Watson and David Thompson
Gender concerns leave MIT-Harvard star lone unconfirmed choice for presidential Cabinet
Managers must acknowledge that supervising some types of doctoral candidates is more labour-intensive, say Roger Watson and David Thompson
Now is the time to build a research infrastructure that harnesses and nurtures the energy, creativity and enterprise of the third sector, says letter
Two recent news stories show just how far the government is prepared to go in sacrificing the international good standing of UK higher education on the altar of neoliberal market ideology. Even after...
Current UK nurse training should focus on a national curriculum, its content and assessment, and not its categorisation as a degree, says Ann Bradshaw
The 10 August issue of Times Higher Education had two articles the same topic – predatory journals. One, by Roger Watson (“Fight fraudulent journals”, Opinion), offers suggestions to universities on...
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
There is growing concern that China is trying to silence its critics in the West, with academic publishers a particular target. Tao Zhang considers the consequences for scholarly freedom – and what...