CVs and interviews axed as universities ‘de-bias’ recruitment
Recruiter and ex-Sussex chair Simon Fanshawe aims to tackle biases around gender, ethnicity and university background
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Should plagiarism be a bar to presidency?
Joe Biden’s first presidential run was derailed by a scandal over a college law paper.
Finns join journal subscription boycott movement
Negotiations with Taylor & Francis collapse over cost as journal outages spread across Europe
US university students see nuance in free speech limits
Amid strident debates, undergraduate attitudes reflect expert appeal for case-by-case considerations
Australian universities trial ‘respectful relationships’ training
Four institutions to pilot online module next year
What will the Duchess of Sussex mean for global higher education?
Academics assess the impact Meghan Markle may have in her new role as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities
Facebook-funded AI ethics institute faces independence questions
New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate
Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched
US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility
Melbourne Publishing’s potboiler poses questions about role of uni press
If popular books trump scholarly monographs, what’s the point of academic publishers?
‘Perfect 10’ wariness reveals gender bias in student evaluations
Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds
