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’
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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.
Hands-off visa processing ‘skewing enrolments’
Low risk rating reflects ‘cursory’ scrutiny for fraud, former Australian immigration official warns
Baby boomers back on campus as US universities surf silver wave
Retirees increasingly being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students
Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’
Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’
Europe ‘losing ground’ to US and China on AI research
Leading professor who backs creation of ‘Cern for AI’ calls lack of decisive government action ‘disturbing’
Springer Nature proposes model for open access transition
Suggested approach could see content from Nature made freely available
The economic value of going to university is not declining
Falling UK graduate wages reflect not too many students but a flexible labour market’s post-crash adjustment
Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative boosting academic links?
Data on the growth of scholarly collaboration across Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe suggest Beijing’s grand strategy could be having an impact
The university where half the professoriate ‘has never published’
Nepotism and the isolation of war have left Kosovo’s oldest university battling poor research standards, but transparency campaigners hope this is changing
