Hundreds fail to spot plagiarism

Study reveals half of students skip over attribution and many have lenient views on punishment for cheats

Cambridge v-c warns Brexit would isolate UK researchers

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says that universities would lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year in EU funding

TeachHigher, wages lower? Beware the outsourcers’ razor

Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers’ lot poorer and more precarious

Nature journal ‘playing with fire’ over fee for fast-track review

150 editors at Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports to resign if the option to jump the publication queue becomes permanent

Does politics matter? Answers on a beer mat, please

University of Sheffield project to leave 4,000 coasters in bars to gather data on public attitudes to politics and democracy

Let’s be serious about academic freedom

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn Hammersley

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 23 April 2015

Solving the Strategy Delusion: Mobilizing People and Realizing Distinctive Strategies, by Marc Stigter and Cary Cooper

Managers remain in thrall to bad ideas about how to run companies, learns Helga Drummond

Salford staff to strike over sackings

UCU claims two members may have been targeted for ‘role in union’

Charlie Hebdo academic conference ‘cancelled’

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Megan Dunn elected next NUS president

Former vice-president promises to focus on tackling cost of living crisis

Slay peer review ‘sacred cow’, says former BMJ chief

Peer review is a sacred cow that is ready to be slain, a former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal has said

Droughts force change at California campuses

By Kaitlin Mulhere, for Inside Higher Ed

Student poll: campus vote swings from yellow to Green

Survey assesses the voting intentions of 13,000 students

SNP to back lower tuition fees in England

The Scottish National Party has pledged to support Labour’s proposed reduction of tuition fees in England to £6,000.