Digital professors as critical thought leaders
Professors should embrace the digital transformation of higher education but eschew the commercial interests that will inevitably come with it, argues Markus Giesler
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Trump move against affirmative action may spark Supreme Court battles
Removal of guidelines on affirmative action and retirement of Supreme Court justice could ‘set the stage for future challenges’ to university admission policies
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Major progress made in open research but technical and cultural obstacles remain
Compliance rules around the UK's open access policy are good, but we need more support from vendors, publishers and institutions to make research outcomes truly accessible to the public, says Helen...
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Half of UK academics ‘suffer stress-linked mental health problems’
Scholars at greater risk of stress-related illness than police, medics and local authority staff, research suggests
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Funding boost for African academics to fight continent’s diseases
New funding commitment aims to aid drug discovery ‘in Africa by Africans’
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Indonesian universities ramp up student monitoring to stop terrorism
Heads of 122 state universities across the country pledge to work with counterterrorist forces
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New UK visa scheme announced for skilled foreign researchers
Initiative will allow UKRI to sponsor researchers from outside the EU, but key questions unanswered
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Think Chinese to protect enrolments, Australian universities told
China’s internal policies, such as Belt and Road initiative, may hold the key to protecting a critical revenue stream
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Applying nudge strategies to higher education
Behavioural interventions have been successful in improving graduation rates among first-generation and underrepresented students in the US and should be embraced by more educators, say Ben Castleman...
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Zombie academic on the march
Undead professor deployed as critique of managerialism and teaching evaluation at a UK conference
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Ucas mature student report shows ‘one size doesn’t fit all’
Mature students more likely to study vocational courses, are mostly women and more likely to live at home, analysis finds
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UKRI counts tax cost after charity status ‘blunder’
New government body for research predicts cost of £15 million per year if tax problem not resolved
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Australia gives cold shoulder to Chinese PhD students, report suggests
Visa data, contradicted by Home Affairs figures, raise questions over treatment of Chinese doctoral applicants
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Nicholas Dirks on reimagining the university
In a world transformed, we need a radical new blueprint – for a flexible, less centralised network of scholars and students, says a former Berkeley chancellor