How scholars at one UK institution are reclaiming their university
We are living through an epochal moment in the history of universities.
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Continental European university model ‘under pressure’
Elite continental European universities could find it “increasingly difficult to compete” with their US and UK counterparts ...
Gates Foundation joins shift towards open access platforms
One of the world’s biggest funders of scientific research is to establish an open access platform that will allow its grant winners to publish their findings...
Global higher education ‘faces anarchy’ after unchecked expansion
The expansion and differentiation of global higher education without a well-defined strategy means that the sector faces a “period of anarchy”, a study warns.
Careers modules and work placements ‘should be compulsory’
Taking careers classes can improve students’ chances of finding graduate employment by 40 per cent, research suggests.
French professors fall short in global salary comparison
University professors in France are paid far less than their peers in other countries as state bureaucracy prevents top researchers from negotiating higher salaries, new analysis suggests.
Stop binning negative results, researchers told
A new Europe-wide code of research conduct has ordered academics and journals to treat negative experimental results as being equally worthy of publication as positive ones.
BPP’s Dutch ownership brings call for scrutiny
All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands
Do private providers have higher dropout rates?
A common charge levelled against some new providers of higher education is that their students are more likely to drop out than those at traditional universities.
Using laptops in class harms academic performance, study warns
At times, it can seem as if the march of technology in higher education is unstoppable.
