Do for-profit institutions have students’ best interests at heart?
Despite its tarnished reputation and history of collapsed ventures, the for-profit sector retains a strong foothold on the US academy. Paul Basken tracks its successes and failures
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Books interview: Marixa Lasso
The author of ‘Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal’ on pirates, Western civilisation and tropical stereotypes
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US judge orders predatory publisher Omics to pay $50 million
Peer review promised by India-based publisher often turned out to be cursory or non-existent, says Federal Trade Commission
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The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness, by Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka
Book of the week: Steven Rose praises a bold new attempt to explain the origins and nature of consciousness
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Learned societies’ insulation from modern university culture has its dark side
A lack of accountability can permit a toxic culture to linger unchecked, says one former employee, who was the victim of antisemitism
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We need to challenge the university monopoly on research
More independent research centres would mean more jobs for researchers and more scientific progress, says Thomas Fink
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The Political Economy of De-liberalization: A Comparative Study on Austria, Germany and Switzerland, by Anna Fill
Jörg Michael Dostal considers the complex struggles between economic liberalisation and deliberalisation in three European countries
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution, by Toby Green
Ruth Finnegan praises a book celebrating the agency of Africans across the centuries
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Measures that matter: an innovation that credits social impact
Many institutions’ missions mean they do work that changes lives but never wins wide attention. Our new University Impact Rankings aim to recognise them
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Embrace lifelong learning or risk obsolescence, universities told
US university president tells THE summit that institutions need to ‘rethink’ their operations
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Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, by Mark Miodownik
Peter Goodhew reflects on the sheer oddity of liquids
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Solving Chemistry: A Scientist’s Journey, by Bernard J. Bulkin
Richard Joyner assesses an argument that all the major questions in the discipline have now been answered
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Elsevier chief: end citation fixation to halt ‘salami publishing’
YS Chi claims publisher’s shift to recognise research quality over quantity left a void that has been filled by others happy to publish insubstantial work
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New scholarships turn out to be funded by axeing exchange scheme
Australian government accused of ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’
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Chantal Mouffe: ‘only populism can save the left’
Political scientists typically see politics as an exercise in consensus-building. But Chantal Mouffe tells John Morgan that the left must learn from right-wing populists’ exploitation of “them and us...