US community college: half of students could quit over money
Almost half of community college students in the US could drop out because of a lack of finances, according to new research.
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New formula aims to stop ‘unfair’ credit for research
Scholars who publish research with hundreds of co-authors should receive no more than one-third of the current credit they get for such papers, according to a proposed formula designed to eradicate “gift authorship”.
Young academics’ research ‘elegant but not interesting’
Young researchers at Western universities are increasingly writing “safe” and “conservative” papers due to the pressure to get published...
UK’s ‘lower-ranked’ universities take non-EU students hit
About half of UK universities have lost international student numbers since the Conservatives entered power in 2010, with the losses across those institutions totalling 43,000 students and focused in “middle and lower-ranked universities”.
Scholars ‘more reluctant’ to travel to US under Trump
“Some of our friends couldn’t make it.”
Future of key UK nuclear research facility ‘in peril’
There are "just weeks" to secure the future of a world-leading research facility on UK soil in the wake of the government's decision to leave the European Atomic Energy Community as part of Brexit.
Online paraphrasing tools ‘facilitating plagiarism’
The proliferation of online tools allowing students to paraphrase academic work for their own assignments is facilitating plagiarism, according to the author of new research in the area.
Academics at lower-ranked universities ‘have poorer well-being’
Scholars at lower-ranking universities experience poorer psychological well-being than their counterparts at more prestigious institutions...
Fact check: are England’s universities ‘swimming in cash’?
Nothing gets the higher education policy community going like a good old-fashioned row about funding.
Revised US travel ban ‘cuts off’ pipeline of university talent
US universities face a potential decline in international students and academics next year in light of Donald Trump’s revised travel ban ...
