The week in higher education – 26 May 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Is academic life in North Korea as strange and difficult as you think?
Even universities in the hermit kingdom largely cut themselves off from the rest of the world. Yet those few Westerners with direct experience of them suggest that while critical inquiry is...
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What the FRAP happens next? Four priorities for reforming the REF
The next exercise should clarify its purpose and language, relax its disciplinary focus and refine research culture, says James Wilsdon
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26 May 2022 digital edition
Smile you’re being watched: What is academic life in North Korea really like?
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Interview with Malcolm Gaskill
The historian discusses ‘glimpsing the nightmares’ of early colonial Americans in his Wolfson prize-nominated book on witchcraft, and why he took early retirement from academia
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Geneva calls in police over transgender talk no platforming
Protesters who disrupted gender theory book talk accuse university of ‘repression’ after criminal complaint lodged
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Habib: UK v-cs unwilling to build more equitable global academy
SOAS director says he’s seen little evidence colleagues are prepared to confront ‘difficult questions’ of African brain drain and ‘unequal’ relationships with institutions in the developing world
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Princeton fires professor critical of racial equity efforts
Joshua Katz dismissed after renewed probe of sexual misconduct case
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University of Macau edging us out, international academics fear
Researchers perceive weakening of institution’s international and multilingual atmosphere
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Fixed-term university staff ‘missing out’ on maternity provision
Women on fixed-term contracts in Russell Group universities less likely to return to work after maternity leave than permanent peers, study finds
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REF 2021: Did game-playing shift from researchers to outputs?
Increased use of ‘team science’ may have been a major factor in latest REF scores, say experts, but this may be no bad thing
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US trying to make science grant awards more efficient
From both the NIH and a leading philanthropist, nation’s researchers get new hope for cutting the huge waste of time and effort in bureaucratic reviews
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Female scientists less likely to win prizes named after men
Survey of more than 9,000 prizewinners reiterates ‘urgent’ need to tackle gender representation, authors sayÂ
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Academics’ office hours are over
A US university’s requirement of 10 in-person office hours per week is an anachronistic sales pitch, says Jonathan Beecher Field
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Asia University Rankings 2022: methodology
To put together the Asia University Rankings, adjustments are made to the robust and comprehensive criteria that underpin THE’s World University Rankings to take into account this region’s unique...