This is a curious book to have come out of Oxford University Press in that it is written in a refreshingly accessible style, displays much erudition, yet has no scholarly footnotes and often engages...
Just as relations between open-access advocates and their bête noire, the publisher Elsevier, were starting to thaw ever so slightly, a PR disaster for the company threatens to plunge it back into...
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Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
Can the Social Science Centre really build a local institution offering a reimagined higher education free of the market? Alastair Bonnett meets participants in an alternative knowledge economy
Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere
A critique of the US-as-empire is a good call, says J. Simon Rofe
Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say
The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners.
The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.
Staff in higher education are being urged to reject a “disappointing” 1 per cent final pay offer by universities.
Universities are more important than ever to the development of great cities and knowledge economies, argues John Sexton