New Austrian government to bring in university tuition fees
Concerns raised over moves to ‘mute’ students’ union and potential for far-Right figures on university boards
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Women ‘more likely to be pressured to add authors’ to papers
Female academics are much more likely to feel obliged to award authorship credit to other researchers even if they did not make a significant contribution to the paper, a new study reveals.
Schools ‘over-predict grades to get students unconditional offer’
UK universities’ growing willingness to make unconditional offers to students is leading schools to increasingly over-predict the grades that their pupils are likely to achieve, an academic leader has warned.
Elsevier maintains German access despite failure to strike deal
The publishing giant Elsevier has said that it will maintain German universities’ access to its journals, despite failing to negotiate a new deal before many institutions’ contracts expired on 1 January.
Rock school awarded more student loan funding than LSE
A for-profit rock music school now receives more mainstream public funding for teaching than the London School of Economics after almost trebling the number of students holding state-backed loans in three years, latest figures show.
US proposals ‘could shut poorest students out of universities’
Proposed changes to the law that governs the US higher education system could undermine universities’ efforts to increase access for low-income students and increase fraud within the sector, experts have warned.
Study finds more evidence of state school ‘advantage’ in degrees
Further evidence of comprehensive school students’ “significant advantage” that makes it more likely that they get a good degree from a UK university compared with similar students from private schools is presented by a new study.
Anti-terror laws ‘to blame for campus free speech concerns’
The government’s own enforcement of anti-terror strategy Prevent is responsible for a perceived “chilling” of free speech on university campuses, the former leader of the House of Lords has warned.
Students ‘more likely to go to female lecturers for favours’
Most academics will have tales of students coming to them in tears and begging for a deadline extension, or even for their work to be bumped up a grade.
Students defend the future of facts on Wikipedia
A decade ago, Amy Carleton, a lecturer in comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a sign in her classroom in capital letters that read: “Wikipedia is not a source”.
