‘Reach for the Sky’ explores pressure to get into South Korean universities
A new documentary has exposed the extreme pressure put on South Korean students to win entry to three of the country’s most prestigious universities.
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Inflexible partners ‘can hold back female academics more than children’
Female academics may be held back in their careers more by inflexible partners, and less by the demands of children, than previously thought, a new analysis indicates.
The battle over breasts: are bare-breasted feminists hypocritical?
When you see an image of a naked woman, what’s the first thing you think?
Humanities needs overhaul to stress ‘benefits for industry’
The value of the humanities to business is underestimated, but few departments are able to demonstrate relevance of studies to industr
Wellcome Trust to fund more long-term projects to counter ‘pressure to publish’
The Wellcome Trust is to fund more long-term research projects because of fears that the pressure to publish and the need to show research impact will prevent academics from successfully tackling the world’s most pressing challenges.
Papers retracted after authors used unauthorised data from junior researchers
Two papers have recently been retracted after authors included the work of more junior researchers without their permission, highlighting concerns about use of early career academics’ research by senior scholars.
Help poorer students to ‘navigate’ university, says Harvard professor
US universities must provide more “navigational” support to help students from poor backgrounds succeed in higher education, according to one of the world’s leading authorities on social mobility.
Hundreds of UK academics pledge to boycott Israeli universities
More than 300 UK academics have pledged to boycott Israeli academic institutions in protest at what they describe as the country’s “intolerable human rights violations” against Palestinians.
Marking an essay? Big Brother may be watching…
One of the UK’s leading universities is developing analytical tools to monitor academics’ performance in areas such as the quality and timeliness of feedback on student assignments.
‘Triumphalist’ mindset explains criticism of Middle East campus, says NYU president
ritics of New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus are indulging in US “triumphalism” when they raise concerns about its ability to operate in a climate of limited academic freedom, its president has claimed.
