Scholars ‘more reluctant’ to travel to US under Trump
“Some of our friends couldn’t make it.”
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Future of key UK nuclear research facility ‘in peril’
There are "just weeks" to secure the future of a world-leading research facility on UK soil in the wake of the government's decision to leave the European Atomic Energy Community as part of Brexit.
Online paraphrasing tools ‘facilitating plagiarism’
The proliferation of online tools allowing students to paraphrase academic work for their own assignments is facilitating plagiarism, according to the author of new research in the area.
Academics at lower-ranked universities ‘have poorer well-being’
Scholars at lower-ranking universities experience poorer psychological well-being than their counterparts at more prestigious institutions...
Fact check: are England’s universities ‘swimming in cash’?
Nothing gets the higher education policy community going like a good old-fashioned row about funding.
Revised US travel ban ‘cuts off’ pipeline of university talent
US universities face a potential decline in international students and academics next year in light of Donald Trump’s revised travel ban ...
Women in research: bibliometrics show progress over 20 years
A new analysis of authorship data from journal papers across several subjects and countries has given a wide view of what progress has been made on gender equality for researchers over the last 20 years.
Fast-track degrees ‘would create two-tier academy’ in England
More academics will be pushed into stressful teaching-only contracts if fast-track honours degrees are rolled out across England, it has been warned.
Russia targets soft power, not money, from international students
Russia is recruiting international students to strengthen its “soft power” in former Soviet states rather than gaining any significant income from foreign enrolments, a study suggests.
International applications to US universities stall
Nearly 40 per cent of US universities are seeing declines in applications from international students
