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Comparison websites on the way as admissions centres reinvent their services amid emerging needs and demographic change
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Resistance to the knowledge generated by science will only be overcome with the help of the humanities. But what can universities do to bridge C. P. Snow’s famous divide between these fields, which endures to this day?
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Academics’ reading lists are increasingly directed by algorithms. But are the recommendation services of platforms such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Mendeley distorting science? And might AI ultimately lead it to a disastrous echo chamber? David Matthews reports
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Interview with Wang Gungwu
11/08/2021
Former Hong Kong v-c and expert on the overseas Chinese experience talks about living through nearly a century of Asian history -
Editors of Journal of Controversial Ideas hope to puncture ‘cancel culture’, but other scholars warn researchers ‘can’t stop being an accountable moral agent’
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Four different datasets, four different stories: Australian university staffing statistics ‘impossible to reconcile’
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Sizeable number of staff members struggled over course of pandemic and are suffering from chronic stress and exhaustion, researchers say
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Publishing a well-received paper could boost a scholar’s income by $13,500, says US study
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Pandemic drove down wages at two-thirds of institutions, AAUP annual survey finds
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Easing of pandemic a moment for many campus presidents to take a break and others to be pushed out
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Commission considers suggestion that ‘fire drill’ exercises could help prepare for environmental, health or economic disasters
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Is it time to reassess student assessment?
11/08/2021
The pandemic has accelerated numerous experiments in assessment for the digital age, moving beyond simple knowledge recall. But is the traditional exam really obsolete? As the dust settles on another marking season, seven academics give their widely differing views -
Interview with Sudhir Hazareesingh
11/08/2021
Wolfson History Prize winner explains how Toussaint Louverture was a ‘spiritual ancestor’ of Black Lives Matter -
Community-led research is often seen as a social justice response to centuries of exploitative study, but exponents say it also produces better science
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With ‘storytelling’ CVs becoming crucial in hiring and funding decisions, Jack Grove explores how academics can craft compelling research statements
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Welcome to the Committee of No
11/08/2021
We all need to be strategic about where we devote our service time – especially those of us most inclined to say ‘yes’, say seven academics -
Abandoning measurable evaluation criteria will make judgements more political and more random, say Raymond Poot and Willem Mulder
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Policy revamp aims to tackle gender inequality
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As a union steps up the fight in the UK, wide variation in the treatment of PhD candidates continues around the world
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Universities must do more to help those dissatisfied with academic life as they seek a career in industry, says Mayra Ruiz Castro