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.
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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.
All take and no give? Many scientists resist shift to open data
Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own
University autonomy in Europe ‘hit by austerity’
Economic austerity has led to declines in university autonomy across Europe as governments have increased their control of institutional finances, a major study says.
UK research loses more ground to Germany on ERC funding
The UK no longer secures the most research grants for established scientists from the European Research Council, new data reveal.
China’s universities: significant progress, but more to do
China’s rise as a global economic powerhouse hardly needs an introduction.
Assessing PhD supervisors ‘leads to higher completion rates’
Universities can improve their PhD completion rates by using metrics to assess the performance of supervisors, a conference has heard.
