Marking exams? When it comes to workload, less can mean more
Academics faced with a pile of exam scripts to mark often feel like they have been at it for 10 hours straight and, for some, this may be depressingly close to reality.
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IFS: English student loan changes ‘hit poorer graduates hardest’
Changes to student loans after 2012, principally the freezing of the repayment threshold, have increased the “burden” of repayments “most for low and middle earners”, according to a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report.
University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs
A UK university has told all of its research professors to reapply for their jobs, or face redundancy.
‘Mafia’ professors ‘control Pakistan’s corrupt research system’
Top academic claims universities have created 'factories' for junk science papers because of misguided funding system
Market competition and mass participation ‘reduces diversity’
Increased market competition and the growth in participation in higher education has led to “imitation” behaviour and the narrowing of university missions around the world
Cambridge plans postgraduate growth to counter financial worries
The University of Cambridge is planning an expansion of postgraduate student numbers as the institution seeks to counter a “continuing deterioration” in financial outlook that it attributes partly to Brexit and higher education policy uncertainty.
One in five alternative providers seeking degree-awarding powers
One in five private providers of higher education in England plan to apply for degree-awarding powers by the end of the decade, signalling increased competition for established universities.
Chinese scholars ‘win up to £127,000’ for papers in top journals
Chinese scientists can win awards of up to $165,000 (£127,000) from their universities for publishing in leading scientific journals, according to research that exposes the country’s system of “cash for articles”.
One in four Norwegian humanities researchers ‘never publishes’
More than a quarter of humanities researchers in Norway have never published, according to the first evaluation of the discipline in the country for 30 years.
Brexit department lacks scientific adviser as talks get under way
Researchers have expressed concern about the UK government’s decision to start negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union while the department in charge of talks remains without a chief scientific adviser.
