Journal transparency rules to help scholars pick where to publish
Next step of Plan S will require publishers to release acceptance rates and review times
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Plan U: funders urged to mandate immediate preprint publication
Shifting towards open access journals will only achieve so much when review and editing processes take so long, scientists say
Australian universities cap international student numbers
Administrations ease back on foreign fee splurge to avoid financial overexposure and to protect student experience
Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans
Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
Employers ‘to drive retraining demand’
Australian report suggests that business economics, not workers’ survival, will drive lifelong learning boom
When does proofreading become plagiarism?
Experts say rules are too unclear in light of rise of online commercial checking services
Australian universities struggle to cover domestic teaching costs
Narrowing financial buffers raise questions over Australian universities’ goals of being comprehensive
Decline in soft skills ‘driven by trivialisation of humanities’
Treating the sciences and the humanities as separate worlds does employers and students no favours, says award-winning interdisciplinarian
Identify outreach students nationally, says report
Experts propose ‘national widening access cohort’ as alternative to widely criticised POLAR measure
