Romanian government ‘seizes control of research councils’
Romania’s top universities have called for the country’s research minister to be dismissed after the government removed overseas members and evaluators from national research councils.
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PhD students: time to make them university employees?
Universities around the world looking closely at employment rights and research engagement of doctoral candidates
UK Tory review of tertiary funding could bring ‘price competition’
The Conservative manifesto’s plan for a “major review” of tertiary education funding could “generate price competition for the first time ever” across the whole sector, according to one expert in the field.
Australian v-cs unite against cuts and performance-linked funding
Australian vice-chancellors have unanimously opposed government proposals to cut university funding and increase tuition fees, while concerns have also been raised about plans to introduce performance-based funding for teaching.
US university plans dozens of overseas ‘microcampuses’
Rather than build its own brick-and-mortar branch campuses, the University of Arizona is embarking on a plan to open more than 25 “microcampuses” at international partner universities over the next three years ...
White supremacist upsurge puts US universities under pressure
Emerson College seemed a curious place for flyers to appear promoting white supremacist organisation American Vanguard.
One in three UK universities going backwards on female professorships
The proportion of professorships held by women has declined at significant numbers of UK universities in recent years ....
UK and Australia explore post-Brexit bilateral research fund
Australian and British universities are exploring the possibility of setting up a bilateral research fund and a reciprocal visa for academic talent as the UK leaves the European Union.
Journals’ statistics rules ‘help tackle reproducibility crisis’
Academic journals may be able to help tackle science’s reproducibility crisis by issuing guidelines on the use of statistics in papers submitted for publication, researchers say.
Dutch business school rocked by criticism of its links to Shell
A row has broken out in the Netherlands over a contract between one of the country’s top business schools and Royal Dutch Shell that appears to give the oil company influence over curricula and admissions.
