Scholars still using new technology ‘to do the same damn thing’
Gregory Crane is an academic whose work combines some of the oldest and youngest branches of human knowledge: ancient Greek and Latin, and computer science.
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North Korea’s ‘Western’ university at risk as tensions rise
North Korea’s only Western-run university may be forced to shut down when the US bans its citizens from travelling to the secretive state, one of its senior academics has warned.
University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally
UK universities have emerged as world leaders on fossil fuel divestment as the total value of funds being withdrawn by higher education institutions globally tips £80 billion.
US universities ban white nationalist Richard Spencer from campus
Three US universities have blocked planned appearances on their campuses by the white supremacist Richard Spencer as disgust over far-right violence in Charlottesville prompts institutions to take a stronger stance.
Tell students to read tabloids ‘to help heal educational divide’
Academics should encourage their students to read tabloid newspapers and teach them that they are part of a “specific social milieu” of highly educated people
Universities ‘should be chastened by bigotry among well-educated’
When Ruth Simmons became president of Brown University in 2001, one of her first initiatives was to tackle the institution’s slave history, which she said had “simply been erased”.
India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’
A plan by India to create 20 domestic “institutions of eminence”, with potentially significant implications for the country's place in global higher education, has been hailed as a more sustainable development model than shelved plans to invite in foreign universities.
University of Miami shuns links with Cuba under local pressure
The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba under President Barack Obama has led many universities in both countries to seek new academic partnerships, and this has continued despite the more hostile climate created by the Trump administration.
The R-factor: a new way to rate journal articles?
Researchers have launched an ambitious new metric to rate the reproducibility of a scientific paper ...
Reviewer criticises ‘no publication after preprint’ rule
An academic is boycotting peer review for a scholarly journal after it turned down a manuscript that had previously been published on the website of an education centre.
