Journals fail to take action over ‘fatally flawed’ experiments
Four-year study into publisher responses uncovers delays of almost three years to investigations and ‘huge variance’ in action taken
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The extra £250 million of UK research funding does not answer every doubt
Long-term public and economic health depends on empowering universities, businesses and health systems to work together, says Michael Spence
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Alarm grows over cheating services in Australia
Complaints about essay mills peaked as online delivery concerns subsided, regulator’s report says
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UUK proposes less generous pensions to stave off USS price hike
Union warns that employers ‘have offered very little to dissuade members from voting for another round of industrial action’
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End huge obstacles to student mobility within MENA, summit told
THE event hears benefits of emulating Bologna Process would be huge, but efforts might need to start small
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‘Illogical’ that campuses can’t fully reopen next week, says UUK
Organisation writes to Boris Johnson asking why shops and gyms can reopen but 1 million students can’t return
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University access ‘protected by wealth’ for richest globally
Study finds that children of similar ability at all levels of school system are far more likely to attend university if they come from wealthy backgrounds
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UK study says block teaching boosts student grades
Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points
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‘Anti-left’ group targets Dutch academics with home visits
Online harassment is now spilling into the real world, with politically outspoken historians doxed and subject to posters warning: ‘You are being watched’
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Careers Clinic: how do I scope out a potential employer?
THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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The science detective on a mission to stamp out shoddy research
Elisabeth Bik has sounded the alarm on everything from hydroxychloroquine claims to Chinese ‘paper mills’
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Implicit bias training is often flawed but shouldn’t be scrapped
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities added to the scepticism but, done properly, training makes a difference, say Jules Holroyd and Jennifer Saul
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More Australian universities dive into the red
First institutional accounts reveal mixed results, with many institutions weathering the Covid storm but some plunging into deficit
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Liberal arts ‘face conflict but still key’ in restrictive societies
Academics emphasise role of critical thinking in societal development at THE summit
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Slim overlap in research interests ‘sweet spot’ for collaboration
Paper finds academics are less likely to work together if they focus on very similar areas