US university enrolment drops for eighth year
Declines heaviest among small colleges, men, and states of Florida and Illinois
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Open access: Plan S launch delayed until 2021
Consultation responses had called for start of mandate to be pushed back from January 2020
More universities using peer observation to assess teaching
Reflecting concern about validity of student evaluations, Australian institutions following North American and European move towards greater use of observations
Journal transparency rules to help scholars pick where to publish
Next step of Plan S will require publishers to release acceptance rates and review times
Plan U: funders urged to mandate immediate preprint publication
Shifting towards open access journals will only achieve so much when review and editing processes take so long, scientists say
Australian universities cap international student numbers
Administrations ease back on foreign fee splurge to avoid financial overexposure and to protect student experience
Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans
Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
Employers ‘to drive retraining demand’
Australian report suggests that business economics, not workers’ survival, will drive lifelong learning boom
When does proofreading become plagiarism?
Experts say rules are too unclear in light of rise of online commercial checking services
