India must curb its entrance examination industry
A single test per state could help tackle India’s costly and complex admissions system
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Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ‘big five’
Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia
Racism against students ‘taken more seriously than staff abuse’
Equality and Human Rights Commission data show staff complaints take longer to investigate and are less likely to lead to redress
Difficult times for international students in the US
International students have long been central to American research, innovation and knowledge exchange.
Universities ‘complicit’ in tarnishing of internationalisation
By failing to defend their international engagement, universities have become tangled in popular revolt against globalisation,
Academic loses research contacts as Facebook deletes page
Geographer Maddy Thompson warns scholars against relying on social network
Impact agenda ‘enables climate change scholar-activists’
Philosopher and Extinction Rebellion campaigner highlights ‘genuine synergies’ between academia and activism
Turkish academics sound alarm over gender segregation plans
Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator
Why universities need to embrace their wild side
Lincoln Allison makes the case for the revival of the old-style academic eccentric
‘Location-specific’ blocks on journal access could be OA ‘interim solution’
‘Geo-specific access models’ will help overcome problem of different nations having different policies towards open access, European Commission expert argues
