Swiss misconduct code targets self-citation and authorship abuse
Updated scientific rules for the social media age could set a global trend, with supervision neglect and management cover-ups also in the frame
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Professor accused of aiding sexually abusive PhD student
Attacker got help with doctoral degree while victim was told to find new career, she claims
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Is the age of the campus bookshop over?
LSE’s iconic Economists’ Bookshop is latest casualty but scholars and booksellers insist the university bookstore still matters
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The week in higher education – 27 May 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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27 May 2021 digital edition
Biting back: misunderstood disciplines put the record straight
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Hong Kong universities impose Covid vaccine rules
Several city institutions will not ban unvaccinated students from campus outright but will subject them to testing and may limit access to housing
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Journals must stop blocking critical comments
Allowing faulty papers to go unchallenged damages integrity and threatens dangerous real-world consequences, says Peter Bowbrick
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Interdisciplinary questions: the academy’s most misunderstood fields
Public confusion is one thing, but some subjects provoke quizzical and sometimes dismissive frowns even among colleagues from different departments. Here, nine academics set the record straight about...
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‘Black students have often learned people don’t expect much from them’
Her long career as a psychologist and a college president has shown Beverly Daniel Tatum how crucial racial identity formation is and how overriding negative stereotypes about minority students’...
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Data sharing on Covid research ‘disappointing’, says EU chief
Just 9 per cent of coronavirus papers have made efforts to help replication of experiments, European Commission open science champion tells summit
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Wharton: ‘wrong’ pick for free speech job would mean ‘challenges’
Tory peer hopes for role in selecting ‘thoughtful’ appointee to free speech champion role
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Japan-bound overseas students ‘abandoned’ as border stays shut
Border closures, funding cuts and overnight classes have made life ‘unbearable’, learners claim
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Class suspended over ‘hoax’ anti-white racism allegation
Investigation, despite little evidence, seen as reflecting growing power of conservative critics of academia
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Public funding of US higher education shifts downward
Covid helps end eight years of average increases, with wide state variations