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Entrepreneurship is ‘21st-century heroism’, students told

Analysis of nine European universities finds the ‘innovation’ agenda has taken root – often pushed by students who want to solve the world’s problems

First published by | April 25, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

UK stands by hybrid journals in ‘read and publish’ Springer deal

Three-year agreement, valued at £9.6 million, excludes Springer Nature's prestigious Nature-branded titles

First published by | April 26, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

Net widens on fishy research misconduct probe

Marine biologist Oona Lönnstedt has gone to ground in Sweden after being found to have fabricated data

First published by | April 29, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

Australian PhD students target careers outside academia

Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability

First published by | April 30, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

Experimental colleges: an idea whose time has passed?

Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector

First published by | May 1, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours

David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’

First published by | May 2, 2019 | Education | 0 responses

Science paper retracted in seismic fraud case

A simmering volcano in disaster-weary Japan has unleashed a spout of academic misery, generating multiple misconduct scandals and blowing the lid on a little-recognised arena of research fabrication.

First published by | May 3, 2019 | Science & Technology | 0 responses