The week in higher education – 29 August 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Teaching Generation Z: a biting blizzard or a breath of fresh air?
The current generation of students often come under fire for supposedly being excessively brittle and demanding. But does the reality bear that out, and what are the teaching techniques to which they...
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The true costs of research and publishing
Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history
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Licence to publish will restore trust in science
Researchers should be required to pass exams accredited by professional bodies to prove they have the skills to publish, argues John Sumpter
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UCU: proroguing UK parliament shows ‘contempt for democracy’
Union says move will limit MPs’ ability to scrutinise impact of government’s no-deal Brexit plans on higher education
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How to stop procrastinating – from a procrastination psychologist
As a university student, you can often find yourself procrastinating when you should be studying. But, procrastination can be beaten if you understand it better
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Swansea registrar victim of harassment campaign after v-c scandal
Andrew Rhodes says he was called a ‘psychopath’ and blamed for the death of a colleague
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Concern for student welfare must never excuse racism
A lecturer describes how her university failed to act when she was racially victimised by a student receiving mental health support
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US bars Harvard student ‘over friends’ social media posts’
Palestinian applicant says he has not commented on politics himself
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US admissions service backtracks from student adversity score
Revised College Board tool to provide multiple data points on students’ socioeconomic status
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Reviewer says no to teaching-only universities in Australia
But Australian assessor says most growth will be outside universities, and opens door to new category of institution
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Double the equity target group, Australian universities told
Every below-average neighbourhood should be defined as socioeconomically disadvantaged, conference hears
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Russian curbs on foreigners show rise of science nationalism
Kremlin action follows US reluctance to work with China, and comes as Moscow moves closer to Beijing
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Next UCL president ‘must listen to academics’
Union leader calls for Michael Arthur’s successor to rethink institution’s direction