Wiley buys Hindawi in bid to expand open access platforms
US-based academic publisher eager for digital expertise of London counterpart, but outsiders express concern about growing commercial control of scholarly communication
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Pandemic online learning here to stay? Korean students think not
Growing impatience with online learning in South Korea highlights the limitations of socially distanced teaching, says Justin Fendos
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Turkish refugee academics ‘facing rights violations abroad’
Study finds dismissed supporters of Academics for Peace struggling to gain residence permits, find work and travel
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Brexit deal offers flexibility over UK Horizon Europe repayments
If the UK wins more money from the EU’s flagship research programme it will have to pay it back – but only if the imbalance is structural
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Scientists fear ‘big waves’ of Covid if campuses reopen this term
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies members say that teaching should stay online until Easter
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English lockdown: return of most students further delayed
A-level exams also unlikely to go ahead as planned
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The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine, by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell
David Newman applauds a judicious study of the Middle Eastern politics of cartography
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Hong Kong university to close ‘Mecca for China studies’
Invaluable Mao era materials will be digitised on an open-access platform
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Fresh Asian border restrictions frustrate academics and students
One academic faces five weeks of quarantine, while many students can’t travel to campus at all
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UCL tells students to stay away until late February
Students have been told not to return to campus for another seven weeks
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Blanchflower aiming to counter ‘disastrous’ austerity economics
Economist calls for emphasis on wages and jobs as antidote to ‘failed’ doctrines, as he takes up Glasgow role looking at independent Scotland
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Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive
Academics should not be seduced by the moral certainty on either side of the ‘with us or against us’ divide, says Brad Evans
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Stop ‘vilifying’ China, Beijing tells social scientists
Ministry warns researchers against ‘degrading’ nation in pursuit of international journal publication
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Doubts raised over UK’s alternative to Erasmus+
Turing scheme will not cover tuition fees, travel costs to the UK or staff exchanges, leaving UK universities to negotiate fee waivers
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Broken employability metrics need a post-pandemic revamp
New measures that provide insight into how universities build personal qualities of their graduates are needed, argue Doug Cole and Dino Willox