The week in higher education – 31 August 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Taiwanese students get ‘mental health days’ as suicides rise
Leading institution joins peers in permitting students to take leave without proof of illness
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Can the REF really address the research environment crisis?
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
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Laura Favaro: gender studies ‘groupthink is forcing scholars out’
Researcher who revealed censorship of gender critical feminists says no-debate policies on transgender issues are causing ‘scholarly paralysis’
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Bullying is a feature of UK research universities, not a bug
Departmental hierarchies, job precarity and institutions’ need to protect their star professors enables bullies to thrive in Britain’s top universities, says Wyn Evans
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NIH ban on AI in grant review ‘lacks technological understanding’
Academics say largest US research funder’s policy aimed at stopping ideas theft could also apply to search engines
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Jadavpur set to miss out on ‘Institution of Eminence’ status
Disappointment comes months after v-c told alumni that government funding was ‘becoming extremely inadequate’
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Credentials ‘increasingly important’ for any job
More people need degrees just to keep up with the crowd, analysis of Australian census data suggests
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Supervisors and gender shape PhD patenting track record
US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents
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Return of staff elections ‘victory for democracy’ at Maynooth
Irish university pulls back from plan to handpick internal members of governing authority
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UK fundraising growth ‘remarkable’ as workforce expansion lags
Report calls for campaign to boost ‘esteem and attractiveness’ of sector’s advancement profession
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Shootings mar start of academic year in US
Faculty member shot dead at UNC, gunman chased from Florida HBCU kills three black shoppers, student dies trying wrong house
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Irish universities’ growth ‘limited by accommodation shortfalls’
Post-Brexit expansion comes amid a shortfall of 30,000 beds, with student groups warning universities need to be more upfront about the issues
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China expert quits US university post over ‘restrictive’ policies
‘Narrow-mindedness’ over China in US universities driven by fear of losing government funding, says Denis Simon
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American universities are entering a new era of mistrust
Politicians, the public and judges have grown tired of deferring to universities’ opaque decision-making processes, as illustrated by Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in admissions, say...