US partisan divide over Covid splitting apart campuses
Faculty quit and various sides sue as administrators and conservative politicians forbid health precautions
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Ryerson University to change name over indigenous abuses
Regents accept task force recommendation that namesake is a ‘symbol of colonialism’, although exact legacy less clear
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What do Covid vaccines mean for future of university-industry ties?
Universities are looking to take more vaccine creation processes in-house, as Oxford head warns that coronavirus jabs have created ‘perverse’ profit incentives, reports David MatthewsÂ
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Parenting is the mother of gender inequality in science
A major new study reveals that, across the world, work-life balance issues hold women back, say Elaine Howard Ecklund and Di Di
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Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism, by Rosemary Hill
R. C. Richardson enjoys a vivid account of how the French Revolution helped shape new ways of understanding the past
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Toll of ARC’s preprints rule revealed
Fears for physics pipeline as 32 researchers relinquish up to A$22m for citing preprints
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World University Rankings 2022: methodology
From the information that we are provided by institutions across the globe, we rigorously build up our World University Rankings. This is how we assess data on more than 1,600 institutions to produce...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ needs a new model of international education for the post-Covid era
Revamping delivery modes and partnerships will give ߣߣÊÓƵ a more resilient, student-centred sector with regional appeal, says Deborah Terry
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Biden cuts more student debt but defers on bigger fixes
Campaign pledge of universal student loan forgiveness remains on the agenda, but disagreement abounds over its wisdom and long-term impact
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ߣߣÊÓƵn ERA probe ‘kicked the can down the road’
Review of ߣߣÊÓƵ’s research assessment exercise focused on known problems and left inadequate time to fix them, critic says
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UK universities experience ‘quietest’ clearing period for a decade
Two weeks after results there is unusually low activity and a big increase in deferrals
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‘Give up freedoms’ to solve reproducibility crisis, says expert
Leading light of research replicability Daniel Lakens says ‘uncomfortable questions’ and tough choices are required to restore trust in science
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The fieldwork shutdown is damaging both research and equity
Vaccine inequality and over-reliance on remote data collection threaten to diminish marginal voices, say Nicole Stremlau and Gianluca Iazzolino
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Shortfall on England’s teaching costs ‘could impact research funding’
Warnings of downward trend in cost recovery on domestic students
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Canadian universities finally move to mandate vaccines
But about-turn leaves gaps and lingering fears about challenging political power