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
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Women, Writing, and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100, by Diane Watt
Hetta Howes is impressed by a bold attempt to recover the words of long-forgotten women
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We need backup now
Brave researchers who challenge powerful interests and angry activists cannot be left to fight alone: colleagues and institutions must support them
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What are you reading? – 16 January 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Rise in firsts awarded by UK universities stalls at last
Figures mark end of trend that has seen the share of students gaining the top degree class double since 2009-10
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future, by Alice Gorman
Cait MacPhee enjoys an Antipodean analysis of the ‘heritage’ generated by space travel