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Leniency shown to former Stanford coach not likely for parents and other participants, judge suggests

Adam Ginsburg is fighting conference-induced lethargy by tackling high levels of carbon dioxide at academic gatherings – one window at a time

Federally funded academics would have been required to seek president’s authorisation to go abroad

Institution surrenders $26.5 million (£20.8 million) after donor urges student boycott over women’s rights

Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Shigeru Miyagawa describes how artificial intelligence could transform teaching and assessment

David McKay hopes AI might help universities select students with vital ‘soft skills’

The controversy over a Harvard dean’s defence of Harvey Weinstein is no reason to disregard the core academic mission, says Sandro Galea 

Schedule reform refusal points to deeper problem, pioneer tells conference

Shifting towards open access journals will only achieve so much when review and editing processes take so long, scientists say

US university’s move means that its graduates are entitled to three years of post-study work, not one