Utrecht’s open science fellows to drive staff assessment reform Trailblazing initiative to transform hiring, promotion and performance review has been praised by open science advocates Jack Grove 6月 4日
The wrong kind of free speech can stifle minority voices As Isaiah Berlin showed, academics need to reflect on who is sidelined by commitments to ‘positive’ freedom, says Joseph Mintz Joseph Mintz 6月 4日
Is the future of history writing in the first person? With history books increasingly including first-person, ‘confessional’ elements, authors explain why they take this approach, while other historians reflect on the dangers Matthew Reisz 6月 3日
让我们不要再假装研究人员每天工作8小时了 埃内利·金希科(Eneli Kindsiko)认为,重大科学突破要求人们待在实验室里的时间远远超过朝九晚五,而我们应该公开承认这一点 Eneli Kindsiko 6月 3日
Belarusian universities condemned for expelling protesters As feared, the country’s universities are being used as a weapon to crush dissent against the regime, several academic organisations say David Matthews 6月 3日
Gender pay gap ‘starts in student wage expectations’ Study of Swiss students finds men and women overestimate their graduate earnings, but men do it more significantly Anna McKie 6月 2日
Imperial head: no more ‘dull lectures in crowded auditoriums’ Alice Gast says the pandemic has shown the need for crucial changes in universities Anna McKie 6月 2日
Complete PhD coverage for lecturers ‘undesirable’, says professor But author of 2012 paper on staff qualifications says it is likely to be ‘norm and expectation’ that many academics have a doctorate Simon Baker 6月 2日
Imperial professor dismissed for research misconduct Prolific cancer researcher Eric Lam has been fired after investigation found evidence of data falsification and manipulation Jack Grove 6月 1日
No, minister, England’s free speech bill is a Holocaust deniers’ charter Neither the Equality Act nor campus groups’ good sense will circumvent the duty to give a platform to anyone who wants one, says David Renton David Renton 6月 1日
Can universities help save the UK high street? As online shopping and pandemic leave swathe of retail units vacant, universities are urged to seize chance for space and civic roles John Morgan 6月 1日
Lifelong loans ‘could create long-term cost for English sector’ Government’s lifelong loans plan is fuelling drive to cut system costs and ‘spatchcocking a good idea’, sector figures fear John Morgan 6月 1日