The week in higher education – 10 June 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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10 June 2021 digital edition
To the stratosphere: will the UK hit its £22 billion research funding target?
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Vartan Gregorian, 1934-2021
Tributes paid to Brown University and Carnegie Corporation president: ‘a man of the world who inspired the world’
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Williamson intervention on Oxford royal portrait ‘authoritarian’
Union says education’s secretary’s criticism of students is ‘dangerous’, as Magdalen president defends ‘democratic decision-making’ that led to removal
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Smaller publishers ‘last in the queue’ for open access deals
Interviews with learned societies raise fears that independent imprints will be frozen out of publishing’s future
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Irish president: ‘market-driven’ universities face ‘ruination’
Michael Higgins warns campuses ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leading in too many cases to a degradation of the very scholarship and teaching for...
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US faculty influence wanes during Covid, survey finds
Ideal of shared governance suffers, though AAUP heartened by some revivals, especially at large public universities
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US students largely back vaccine mandates, but Republicans wary
Limited objections tied to nation’s political divide may be theatrical but still significant, survey suggests
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South Pacific v-c reappointment ‘not illegal’, says Nauru leader
Head of state weighs in on dispute, as war of words escalates among Pacific neighbours
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Communist Party secretary ‘killed by lecturer’ on Fudan campus
Wang Yongzhen stabbed at Shanghai university
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European researchers ‘losing interest’ in UK university jobs
Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent
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Now is the time for action on the UK’s R&D spending target
The science base, public and private, needs certainty over how promised funding increases will be spent, says Chris Skidmore
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Students ‘twice as likely to cheat’ in online exams
Survey of German students finds higher levels of cheating during online exams than in on-site exams for the 2020 summer semester
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Grade inflation tied to women in insecure teaching roles
Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds