Fragmented UCU strikes leave reballot campaign ‘in the balance’
Union attempts to rally members to renew the fight but few branches opt to take part in industrial action planned for start of new academic year
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Alaska university system rebounds, but remains badly wounded
Four years after massive budget cuts, enrolment starts perking up, but with doubts that it can help the remote state recover a dire exodus of talent
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Whatever happened to the CUDOS of academic values?
Over the past century, capitalism, relativism, egoism and social advocacy have fuelled the decay of traditional academic commitments, says Bruce Macfarlane
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European institutions concerned by Chinese data protection rules
The authoritarian country has rich datasets for research collaboration, but while some new regulations may feel familiar to European eyes, any comfort must come with big ethical caveats, an expert...
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My academic education was not enough to navigate the real world
Experiences in the Congo and the US Congress taught Stephen Weissman that adventurous academics need self-examination and thoughtful adaptation
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India-Canada spat ‘could hit international student flows’
New Delhi could wreak considerable damage to Canadian universities by playing on Indian families’ concerns over student safety abroad, says academic
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Business schools should return to teaching the humanities
MBAs replaced liberal arts with business courses. Demands for humanised corporations require a reversal, say Donald Drakeman and Kendall Hack
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Two-thirds of UCU branches pull out of nationwide strikes
Several major universities face disruption at start of the academic year but appetite for taking action begins to fragment
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Nearly 200 jobs to go but Wellington university averts some cuts
Small windfalls and ‘passionate advocacy’ spare several dozen more redundancies at Victoria
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Enticing students back to campus is not a simple endeavour
Focusing on the quality of in-person teaching is only one way to make returning to physical campuses more appealing, says Carolyn Evans
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Scientific sleuthing: who should pay the plagiarism hunters?
Journalists and scientist bloggers poke and point to dodgy bits of literature using limited resources. Is there a better way to support them, and defend them against multimillion-dollar lawsuits?
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Students protest against ‘predatory’ scholarship revocations
Swinburne abruptly terminates 30 per cent fee reductions for foreigners who fall foul of ‘gotcha’ clauses
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Taliban brings in ideological courses at Afghan universities
Lectures taught by loyalists seek to ‘turn everyone into a member of their party’, scholar says
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Next generation of humanities scholars ‘imperilled’ by PhD cuts
Arts and Humanities Research Council funding ‘has been some sort of oasis, but it too is now quickly drying up’
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Objectivity scepticism is loosening universities’ grasp of their purpose
Some politicians are using the supposed ideological character of research to justify imposing greater control over it, says Martyn Hammersley