Papers in economics ‘not reproducible’
Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result
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Students in armed service units ‘much more likely to be privately educated’
Researchers warn that benefits of enrolling in Officer Training Corps could be limited to ‘elite’
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Wellcome Trust to fund more long-term projects to counter ‘pressure to publish’
Director Jeremy Farrar argues that current research culture damages scientists’ ability ‘to dream’
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Russell Group access: poorest fall further behind
Only 5 per cent of school leavers who are eligible for free school meals gain places at Russell Group institutions
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UK universities are already China’s best partners in the West
It is no surprise that universities and science are high on the agenda for Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK this week, says Alice Gast
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Reinventing higher education: the battle for diversity
Chris Parr writes from the Reinventing Higher Education conference in Madrid
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Universities need to be ‘ambitious’ to fix the UK’s innovation system
Campuses are one of the ‘strongest bits of the innovation system’ and will be crucial to its ‘rebuild’, conference hears
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PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest
Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind
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Visa refusal fears ‘force UK universities out of international markets’
Home Office policy viewed as ‘racial discrimination’ by applicants, conference told
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TEF metrics plan attacked by academics
Open letter to Hefce and UUK chiefs attracts 169 signatures as quality assessment and TEF proposals debated
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Xi Jinping’s UK visit: do universities need freedom to succeed?
The Chinese president is visiting several of the UK’s top universities. But would they thrive in China?Â
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Tuition fee protests spread across South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand suspends proposed increase, as University of Cape Town is among those forced to suspend classes
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The battle over breasts: are bare-breasted feminists hypocritical?
Why is the world still prioritising male interpretation of women over womankind? asks Victoria Bateman
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University of British Columbia chair resigns over academic freedom case
Independent investigation of university finds professor’s academic freedom was not protected after blog posts on gender balance in university’s leadership
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California looks again at powers in wake of Marcy case
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed