Academics need support to increase their policy impact
Improving聽policymaking is a vital contribution to聽society, but academics聽need聽more time and funds to do so, says Tom Sasse
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Could student mental health apps be doing more harm than good?
As universities try to demonstrate actions and developers sense an opportunity, researchers express concern about lack of evidence behind mobile tools
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What鈥檚 in a name? For PhDs, everything
Are you a student, a candidate or something else? Whatever title you choose can have an impact on how academia views you and how you see yourself, argues Jenny Mak
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Essay mills aim to help students dodge plagiarism checkers
Websites launch new services as they aim to stand out in an increasingly crowded market
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Does a university鈥檚 culture make it predisposed to cyber crime?
Higher education must reconcile its commitment聽to open access information with good cybersecurity principles, argues Martin Vincent
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UK universities raise pay offer for 2019-20
Ucea say new聽proposal increases pay rise 鈥榚nvelope鈥 to聽about 1.5聽per cent, but UCU claims employers have聽failed to make 鈥榮ensible offer鈥
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In Beirut, an American university battles intolerance
Incivility from US helps focus AUB students on need 鈥榯o be the adults in the room鈥
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Gender equality and fairness is central to our culture
David Green outlines聽how his institution has successfully worked to close the gender pay gap聽
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US public universities eye big move into online education
After the collapse of for-profit colleges, big state universities see need and opportunity
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Australian research assessment captures flight to private cash
Skewed funding blunts government influence over what gets researched, expert warns
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Articles pulled after data fabrication in Cambridge DNA lab
Retractions in Nature and Science follow聽Abderrahmane Kaidi鈥檚 resignation from Bristol
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Research must solve social problems, says top EU policymaker
Jean-Eric Paquet聽tells university heads that there is now a 鈥榗onsensus鈥 that research must help deliver sustainable development goals
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Letters 鈥 11 April 2019
Should UCU head be an academic? The general secretary of the University and College Union should be an academic (鈥淧ension tactics central to UCU leadership race鈥, News, 4 April). A UCU leader should...
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New and noteworthy 鈥 11 April 2019
A democratic black hole in Europe; London鈥檚 foundlings; how movies trash the environment; the poignant insignificance of life as lived; and morality for everyone
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Universities should be working for the greater good
Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true...