Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate
Leading publishers are stepping up their fight against ResearchGate by ordering the academic social network to take down papers that they say infringe copyright.
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UK universities’ estate spending tops £3 billion for first time
Spending at four big institutions pushed UK universities’ overall estates expenditure past £3 billion for the first time, according to a report on the state of higher education estate management.
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Richard Thaler
US academic Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced.
Is ‘universal basic income’ a better option than research grants?
Every tenured academic should receive a “basic income” to fund their research projects, rather than wasting their time submitting largely unsuccessful bids for grants, two researchers say.
Missed out on a Nobel prize? Here’s how to win one
Winning a Nobel prize may seem like an absurdly ambitious goal for most scientists to even contemplate but some researchers will admit to daydreaming about it.
Athena SWAN funding link under scrutiny in discrimination row
Female lecturers allegedly under pressure to settle legal action after university’s equality charter application rejected
Apple CEO Tim Cook launches Oxford hub for entrepreneurship
A new entrepreneurial hub for University of Oxford students will help to ensure that the next Steve Jobs or Sheryl Sandberg will come from the UK, its vice-chancellor predicts.
Central European University faces further year of ‘legal limbo’
The threatened Central European University may face a further year of uncertainty over its future in Hungary, after the government extended the compliance deadline for its higher education act to 2019.
Upgrading all borderline students’ degree classes ‘unacceptable’
UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.
‘Lean in’ to public advocacy in Trump era, US scientists told
US university leaders and individual researchers must “lean in” to their responsibilities as public advocates for evidence-based policymaking under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to a former White House staffer.
