Ex-minister aims to block subject limit on English lifelong loans
Tory peer Lord Johnson’s amendment to skills bill intended to stop ministers using ELQ rule or number caps in lifelong loans
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‘Brightest’ PhD student took own life after ‘extreme trauma’
Josie Jolley, who had previously been homeless and allegedly sexually assaulted, described as ‘most talented postgraduate who has ever come through the geography department at the University of...
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Want to skip the vaccine queue? Take a college entrance exam
Young Koreans take advantage of a scheme to give jabs to test-takers
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German police arrest Russian ‘spy’ at university
Federal prosecutor alleges that ‘Ilnur N’ passed on university information to Russian intelligence services in return for cash
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Suited and booted for the campus return, or is scruffy the new norm?
Academics are not known for their killer dress sense, but it can affect everything from course evaluations to perceived competence, say Sebastian Oliver and Ben Marder
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Pedagogical research needs clearer standards of excellence
Wider take-up by academics requires both relevance to specific disciplines and accessibility across disciplines, says Camille Kandiko Howson
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Peer review before research tied to better science
Registered reports model produces better outcomes on all 19 criteria covering novelty, rigour, and importance
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UK ‘lost £1.5 billion’ Horizon 2020 funding after Brexit vote
Scientists for EU says country now needs a plan to regain lost ground as Horizon Europe kicks off
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Bullies barred from applying for Irish research funding
Applicants will have to certify that they have not been found guilty of bullying or harassment under new policy
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Motherhood: A Manifesto, by Eliane Glaser
Catherine Rottenberg considers a bold critique of all the pressures and half-baked scientific advice that constrain the lives of mothers
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Purnell: funding and access cuts risk ‘public policy disaster’
Sector’s social purpose must be ‘unleashed’ post-pandemic, yet government policy could revive ‘old inequalities’, warns ex-Labour minister turned UAL v-c
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Gavin Williamson heralds GCSE grade bar for entry to university
Education secretary urges universities to go ‘further and faster’ on aligning courses with economic needs or government ‘will step in’
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The return of the RAB
We must challenge carping about the bottom-line worth of university study by reiterating that other paths’ pay-offs in no way denigrate a degree’s value
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Who are you calling a pseudoscientist?
Academics need to think far more carefully about how they define and police the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate knowledge, argues Michael D. Gordin
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Adelaide to establish ‘integrity unit’ following sex scandal
ߣߣÊÓƵn consultants’ report reveals shortcomings in treatment of people who experience or witness sexual harassment or assault