Researchers despair as Microsoft shuts down academic services
Decision will impact other tools that relied on Microsoft’s database and raises questions about relying on private firms, critics say
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China Subject Ratings provide reference for First Class Discipline development
China could optimise its subject classification by learning the global practice of broad subject grouping, Lyu Mingxia writes
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‘The whole system has collapsed’: Covid ravages Indian campuses
Public universities could be ‘hit beyond repair’ in fallout from pandemic catastrophe, experts warn
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US college’s student inventors gaining national attention
Service for local companies grabs spotlight as potential aid to competitiveness
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Tie-up puts northern universities in big league for spin-offs
New alliance of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield will put them on more equal footing with golden triangle institutions when seeking investment for start-ups, says adviser
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HKUST plans a different kind of university in mainland China
New campus to be set up with industry-friendly ‘hubs’, not facultiesÂ
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Faith universities are an anachronism
Churches’ grip on former religious teacher training colleges is incompatible with their remit as publicly funded universities, says Keith Sharpe
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LGBT+ university staff face slurs ‘at least monthly’
Three in 10 respondents to UCU survey say that they have experienced homophobic language in workplace
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Bettering Humanomics, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Laura Harvey applauds an attempt to bring more humanistic modes of thinking into the ‘dismal science’
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Female researchers join forces to make fieldwork safer
Network aims to highlight problem of gender-based harassment in the field, support victims and encourage institutions to improve safeguarding
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US states’ attacks on critical race theory continue post-Trump
Lawmakers and activists work to forbid talk of enduring inequities
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HKU cites ‘national security’ in cutting off student union
Professor accuses university of ‘aligning itself with a propaganda narrative that is not intellectually defensible’
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German universities’ teaching in English is unavoidably flawed
Limited fluency and cultural concerns could lead to a backlash against German institutions’ pitch to the international market, says Brian Bloch
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Warning over ‘online study platform’ job adverts
Students who take promotional jobs could face massive fines and prison time, Australian regulator says