Top US science journals risk reputations to battle Trump
Pushed by Covid, academic authors see rare need to offer political voic
China clamps down on gao kao identity theft
Legislative amendment sets out punishments for stealing or assisting stealing of someone else’s identity in university entrance exams
Change male academics to create gender parity, universities told
Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been ‘strangely silent’ about masculinity in academia, professor argues
Anonymise online courses ‘to protect students from foreign laws’
New guidance suggests UK universities could introduce Chatham House rule for seminars to protect recruits from countries with repressive governments
UK universities sign deal to waive Plos publication fees
Three-year deal will allow researchers to publish papers without paying additional article-processing charges
US campus reopening plans ‘tied to politics, not public health’
In-person instruction during Covid linked to Republican states and whiter student bodies
Call to protect academic freedom in overseas partnerships
New code of conduct says universities should adopt procedures for confidential reporting of threats to freedom and safety as a result of international collaboration
Pressure to publish forces Chinese to rethink childbearing
Women on fixed-term contracts twice as likely to have moved forward or delayed plans to start a family compared with permanently employed
Malaysia’s U-turn on reopening campuses leaves students in lurch
Widespread anger over cancelled registrations could have been avoided with better management, expert says
Biden free-college plan ‘would pay for itself in a decade’
Georgetown analysis counts benefit of educated workers with better jobs
