Russian pseudoscience has fuelled the bloodshed in Ukraine
Failure to expel crackpot social scientists from Russia’s academy has allowed dangerous dogma to dominate public discourse, says Andreas Umland
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Interview with Sir Lawrence Freedman
The war studies professor on Ukraine, writing speeches for Tony Blair and late career fame on Substack
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Ucas personal statement ‘contributes to access inequalities’
Hepi report says long, free-form format is ‘incompatible’ with fair admissions code and calls for switch to short-response questions
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PhD students prefer in-person supervision, but online persists
Postgraduate researchers respond positively to online-offline support packages but purely online contact is less valued, finds Advance HE survey
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Stop locking down campuses ‘casually’, Chinese universities told
Authorities to inspect institutions ‘one by one’ amid concern institutions are being overzealous in their application of Covid-19 restrictions
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Overseas researchers in limbo over UK security clearance delays
Incoming staff and students risk losing jobs and funding over delayed checks in ‘sensitive’ fields
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The week in higher education – 24 November 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Academic freedom is not freedom of speech for academics
The UK’s Higher Education Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom – if only it can get the definition right, say Liviu Matei and Shitij Kapur
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Students skip lectures as cost-of-living crisis mounts
Office for National Statistics survey shows students are also considering pausing their studies or switching to remote learning
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Restricting UK post-study visas ‘would be catastrophic mistake’
Chris Skidmore urges universities to demonstrate how international students cross-subsidise course places for domestic classmates
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Pay disparity data reveal elite clique in Australian universities
For all their collegiality, pay disparity in Australian universities is ‘not out of step’ with big business
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Dutch helpline for harassed academics gets first reports
Central reporting depersonalises attacks and helps police spot patterns, according to prominent vaccine scholar who has faced threats
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Editor quits over ‘ultimatum’ to add female author to collection
LSE historian accuses journal of ‘compromising intellectual quality in favour of identity politics’
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Recruiters: graduate skills more vital than university reputation
US institutions continue to dominate 2022 Global University Employability Ranking
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If machines do the writing, students will stop doing the thinking
AI is close to being able to write students’ essays for them. But that will not help them understand why they think what they think, says Jane Rosenzweig