Former university presidents: stop blaming faculty for your mistakes
It defies history and logic to lay decades of failure by administrators, trustees and legislators at tenured professors’ door, says Harvey Graff
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Oxbridge acceptance rates triple in inner London
Figures show that 7.5 per cent of state school pupils in one London borough got into Oxford or Cambridge last year – up from just 1 per cent five years before
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Over 1,000 excluded from highly cited researcher list for ‘fraud’
More rigorous checking targets hyper-authorship, excessive self-citation and unusual patterns of group citation activity
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An elite failure to support science risks hobbling India’s ambitions
Recent pronouncements and government actions could undermine ordinary Indians’ faith in science and stifle critical thinking, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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Education department investigates six colleges over Gaza protests
More probes expected after flood of complaints over demonstrations tied to Israel-Gaza conflict
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Diverse leadership ‘crucial’ for workplace parity in science
‘Core recruitment practices’ without quotas reduced gender parity timeline from 60 years to five
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UN ‘concerned’ about inequality in French higher education
Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises
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Employer demand for degrees projected to grow strongly in US
Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates
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Music and maths courses to close as part of Oxford Brookes cuts
University says current cohorts will be the last, blaming declining student numbers
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US campuses try tolerance training to defuse Palestine protests
Education a better approach than ‘political censorship’, universities told
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EU’s planned limit on fixed-term contracts ‘unworkable’
Proposed threshold fails to take account of funding challenges facing universities, sector groups say
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What will the Covid inquiry tell us about science and politics?
Ministers’ communications with their scientific advisers have been revealed, shining a light on how such relationships work, but will wide-ranging exercise change how research informs policy in the...
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Scholar ‘disinvited’ from conference ‘over husband’s activism’
‘As a female scholar, that is doubly insulting to me, to be reduced to being someone’s wife,’ says researcher barred from National University of Singapore
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The UK’s inferiority complex around university spin-offs is misguided
The idea that the US is far better at commercialising academic IP simply isn’t true, say three US licensing experts
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Science journals overturn ban on ChatGPT-authored papers
Prestigious publishing group will allow authors to incorporate AI-written text and figures into papers if technology use is acknowledged and explained