One in four Norwegian humanities researchers ‘never publishes’
More than a quarter of humanities researchers in Norway have never published, according to the first evaluation of the discipline in the country for 30 years.
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Brexit department lacks scientific adviser as talks get under way
Researchers have expressed concern about the UK government’s decision to start negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union while the department in charge of talks remains without a chief scientific adviser.
Black students ‘50 per cent more likely to drop out’
Higher proportion of black students in London may contribute to capital’s higher dropout rates, says SMF
Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
There is deep unhappiness with England’s current system of tuition fees among the young people most likely to be facing repayments under the status quo, with a generational gulf evident in attitudes to university financing
UK: Jo Johnson: student contracts could include ‘legal remedies’
Tough new consumer protection measures could soon be introduced to make it easier for students to sue universities that do not deliver promised levels of teaching.
Gender equality charter may head to India
Universities in India should introduce a charter mark for gender equality that originated in the UK to help boost the number of women working in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, according to a new report.
Taiwan told to sharpen research and ethics to battle Asian rivals
After spending 35 years training and working in the US, Wen-Hwa Lee, president of China Medical University in Taiwan, knows a thing or two about how research systems work.
Scholars still using new technology ‘to do the same damn thing’
Gregory Crane is an academic whose work combines some of the oldest and youngest branches of human knowledge: ancient Greek and Latin, and computer science.
North Korea’s ‘Western’ university at risk as tensions rise
North Korea’s only Western-run university may be forced to shut down when the US bans its citizens from travelling to the secretive state, one of its senior academics has warned.
University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally
UK universities have emerged as world leaders on fossil fuel divestment as the total value of funds being withdrawn by higher education institutions globally tips £80 billion.
