The week in higher education – 26 July 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Pakistan’s students and teachers need lectures in love
Pakistani lecturers and students tend to be similar in age, which makes romances inevitable. Universities must do more to raise awareness of the potential fallout of such relationships, say Abur...
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Environmental scientists must learn the language of literature
Seekers of dispassionate truth may be irritated by the moral passion of the likes of Dostoevsky, Zola and Chekhov, but it is a much stronger influence on public opinion, says David Aberbach Â
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Shutting down trolls is bad politics
Telling opponents of liberal values to ‘jog on’ may be tempting, but it risks confirming opponents’ claims that universities are aloof bastions of leftism, says Julie Odams
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Keep off the Brexit barricades
Partisan social media posts typically get more attention, but dispassionate analyses are what academics are valued for, says Stuart BrownÂ
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Vice-principal quits in protest at failure to punish colleagues
Paul Hagan says Robert Gordon University principal and fellow deputy should have been sanctioned for failing to declare conflict of interest
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USS announces increases in higher education pension contributions
University and staff payments set to increase even though Joint Expert Panel is yet to report
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NUI Galway lecturers promoted after gender discrimination row
Four women settle legal action against university over 2008-09 promotion round
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South African university drops gender titles in student correspondence
The University of the Witwatersrand will not use ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’ in official communications
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Predatory publishers probe snares prominent academics
Investigation discovers 400,000 researchers worldwide have used ‘pseudoscientific’ journals
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Extradition case against Catalan academic Clara Ponsati dropped
Lawyer says Spanish warrant means that economics professor remains an ‘exile’
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Lancaster mulls European branch campus post-Brexit
University says it is ‘exploring options’, but sector leaders urge caution
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Romanian universities cry foul over ‘political’ new ranking
Institutions set to be rated on metrics including the number of classrooms and dormitories that they have
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The evidence that active learning is more effective than lecturing is overwhelming
Promoting active learning is nothing close to ‘religious fervour’, but rather follows the findings of robust, evidence-based research, says Carl WiemanÂ
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Worrying signs for Australia’s gravy train
Is Australia’s higher education export industry destined to become a victim of its own success? Â