‘Peer-reviewed preprints’ will offer guide to quality, says eLife
Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers
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Levelling-up requires more from everyone – including universities
Government, enterprise and education must contribute to a multi-pronged, long-term programme to boost social mobility, says Anulika Ajufo
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International branch campus ‘top of the wish list’ for India
UK angling to put itself at front of the queue
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England and US ‘falling behind on shift to values-led education’
Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education
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‘World standard’ review for Australian research assessment
Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right
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US Supreme Court delay seen as aiding Harvard on admissions
In seeking Biden perspective, nation’s top court follows process that comforts affirmative action backers
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Otago medical students turned foreign placements into holidays
Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’
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Subject diversity improving globally but US and UK buck trend
Report from Clarivate also raises fundamental questions about how disciplinary priorities are shaped Â
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US academia defends critical race theory amid political onslaught
Professors and institutions admit worry as at least 20 US states move to block curricula exploring systemic biases
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Young University Rankings 2021: methodology
To ensure that more recently established universities are measured fairly for the Young University Rankings 2021, we have made some modifications to our world rankings methodology, as we explain here
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Excellence and access ‘not mutually exclusive’, says Exeter v-c
Lisa Roberts highlights increasing state school admissions as key priority and rejects ‘death of the lecture’ strategy
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A new code is no weapon against excessive self-citation
In the absence of agreed definitions and rigorous enforcement, good practice will continue to depend on personal responsibility, says Ron Iphofen
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Australians fear Chinese impact on free speech and course places
Chinese students bring benefits but universities are too reliant on them and Canberra should ‘take a harder line’, respondents say
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Academic life for women ‘is like snakes and ladders’
Efforts will only go so far without changes to ‘mindsets’ in Asia, says editor of new book
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Digital shift ‘chance to bring free HE to world’s poor’
Sustainable development expert Jeffrey Sachs also warns against rise of a ‘monopoly Amazon university’