Finishing isn’t everything, says dropout study
A ‘deficit-centric discourse’ is obscuring the benefits of partially completed courses, Australian research finds
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Researcher calls for donations of laboratory equipment for Africa
Many campuses on continent lack basic scientific tools
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Canada’s Arctic university ‘lets north solve northern problems’
Yukon University will offer its own degrees and combine Western and Indigenous approaches to science
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Professional societies need to take bold steps to support precarious scholars
From alienating alumni to excluding contingent workers from governing councils, societies and university departments risk doing a disservice to 70 per cent of academics in the US, says Zeb LarsonÂ
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Donation rows reignite debate over universities’ gift policies
Academics say there has been a shift in guidelines on philanthropy but changes are likely to remain superficial
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Open up your education system, India told
Sector leaders emphasise potential role that country’s academics could play in finding solutions to global challenges
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Bonuses ‘likely behind’ Indonesian skew towards domestic research
Share of country’s research involving international collaboration more than halves as domestic publications surge
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Counselling and scholarships prioritised in bushfire response
Mental and financial survival are prioritised, as government and universities chart recovery efforts
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Are video games a neglected resource for popularising research?
New organisation should help build partnerships between academics and content developers
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Lancet editor-in-chief calls for ‘activist’ journals
Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit ‘passively waiting’ for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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India is poised to become a leading knowledge society
The proposals set out in India’s Draft National Education Policy 2019 are a positive step towards it becoming a knowledge economy, including strengthening the country’s research capacities and...
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Malaysia tipped to get stand-alone HE department as minister quits
Prime minister acting as education minister after departure of Maszlee Malik
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Berkeley ordered to compensate teaching assistants
Arbitrator finds campus unfairly limited hours to avoid having to provide tuition fee benefits
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16 January 2020 digital edition
Taking one for the team: The personal cost of defending science
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Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage, by Katja Pilhuj
Lisa Hopkins enjoys an ingenious analysis of the ways that ‘discourses of mapping’ influenced attitudes to gender