Dutch aim to stop academics working at weekends
Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven says too much research funding is now competitive, leading to intense work stress
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University promises minority review of black student applications
Calgary initiative aims to stamp out unconscious bias in law and medicine
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Ethnic minority sociologists ‘face hostility’ when teaching race
Study calls for race issues to be embedded into curricula, not taught as an ‘add-on’
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Is your woke academic friend actually a manipulative ‘sock puppet’?
Following the BethAnn McLaughlin and Jessica Krug revelations, Rachel Moss offers her tips for spotting online fakers
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Prospective UK students prioritise teaching quality
Winchester polling puts tuition well ahead of research reputation in eyes of teenagers
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Australian reforms workable with amendments, say universities
‘Lock in’ funding boosts through legislation and abandon punitive auditing measures, Senate committee submissions say
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What are you reading? – September 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Covid-19 increasing risk of burnout amongst academics
The normalisation of burning out should no longer be accepted, say academics who have experienced it, particularly with coronavirus exacerbating the problem
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Harassment hotspots should lose research funding, says Solloway
UK science minister hits out at ‘spurious’ research metrics and ‘publish or perish’ lab culture
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Sally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job
‘Settlement’ brought to light by report on union leaders’ pay from pressure groupÂ
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European higher education set for stimulus funding bonanza
French package to nearly double budget of National Research Agency and add extra 30,000 university places
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NSS overhaul shows ‘dangerous’ drift towards graduate outcomes
Some criticisms around survey may be justified but there are major risks in a wholesale replacement, warn experts  Â
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Covid researchers told to demand equitable vaccine distribution
Campaigners warn that technical details of how to manufacture vaccine candidates are in some cases not being released, risking the world’s ability to ramp up production
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Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2021 methodology
Ranking of US universities and colleges puts student success and learning at its heart
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Why is Germany not embracing the Humboldtian university?
The focus on conducting research in independent institutes is holding the country back, say four academics