Industry job cuts in pandemic ‘push postgraduates to academia’
Bleak economic outlook is swaying PhD candidates towards a university career despite sector difficulties, indicates a survey of UK research students
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Big data era ‘overturns scientific paradigm’
With digital devices generating data from the world at an unprecedented rate, what it means to be a scientist has changed, conference hears
Blacklist journals that keep research locked up, says Schmidt
Covid is no reason to ease off on demands for open knowledge, Australian forum hears
Hot desks ‘must go’ from post-Covid campuses, says deputy v-c
While the pandemic may force an end to open-plan academic spaces, Australian forum hears that ‘empty glass boxes’ are not the answer
US aims to be competitive for science talent under Biden
Academics see end of Trump as end of rules deterring global research recruitment
Australia’s most educated ‘older and more female’
Denise Bradley’s instrumental target has easily been reached, reshaping the populace in the process
Williamson confirms plan to consider post-qualification admissions
Education secretary says use of predicted grades in English system ‘breeds low aspiration and unfairness’
Russian politics ‘plagued by PhD plagiarism’
Half of regional governors’ dissertations contained copied text, and these plagiarists went on to perform worse in government, research suggests
Faculty underwhelmed as Stanford belatedly tackles Covid sceptic
Wider reckoning expected after White House ally Scott Atlas urges uprising against governor
Firms shift towards wanting ‘work-ready’ graduates
Latest edition of Global University Employability Ranking suggests systems with closest industry partnerships on skills are on the rise
