Academics must stand up for their publishing rights
Be careful about what you give away in your excitement about signing a contract for a book, says Lennard Davis
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What are you reading? – April 2021
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Work to rule at Liverpool over ‘rank and yank’ cuts
Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores
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World Academic Summit to focus on ‘power of place’ post-Covid
Online event to explore how pandemic and technology are reshaping geography of global higher education
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Northern universities unveil £500 million technology spin-out plan
Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield join forces to attract private investment
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Nobel laureates share the secrets of their success
Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research
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Australian commercialisation drive hampered by lack of data
Lawmakers ‘desperately seeking innovation nirvana’ fail to buttress it with steadfast policies or durable statistics
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Some UK universities saw teaching contract jump as REF loomed
In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified
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For lifelong learning to work, students must own their educational data
Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer
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Chinese universities urged to review PhD ‘repetition’
Nearly one in five surveyed students find overlap between their master’s and doctoral training
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Are branch campuses set to wither in China?
A decline in admissions standards suggests that foreign outposts will have to up their marketing game, says Hongqing Yang
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Spirit of hip hop ‘could revolutionise architectural education’
Opening up the canon is essential for a discipline that struggles with diversity, claims author
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How to be an ally for first-generation students
As lecturers, we can influence whether social background becomes an obstacle for students’ progression, says Siobhán O’Brien
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The ‘Hidden REF’ will highlight research’s unacknowledged heroes
The focus of research evaluation on papers and grants excludes far too many vital contributions. We must change that, says Simon Hettrick
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Thinktanks ‘have stolen universities’ clothes’
Relying on academic research, thinktanks translate findings into the language of politicians and media, EUA president Michael Murphy argues – but not always accurately