...women in academia https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/heres-level-playing-field-women-academia Times Higher Education. Ethical and pragmatic? Penn president on her Trump ‘silence’. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ethical-and-pragmatic-penn-president-her-trump-silence Times Higher Education. Chinese find graduates of foreign universities ‘harder to manage’ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese-find-graduates-foreign-universities-harder-manage...
...bias. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/education-researchers-accused-anti-grammar-school-bias Times Higher Education. Publishers choose between self-censure in China and import ban https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/publishers-choose-between-self-censorship-china-and-import-ban Times Higher Education. As PNAS calls time on print, will more journals follow suit? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pnas-calls-time-print-will-more-journals-follow-suit...
...rock band Marillion launched an internet fund-raising campaign to bankroll an American tour. Over £35,000 was raised, and the tour went with a bang. Today, crowdfunding is used by film-makers,...
...New York. (…) Most of all, I’m struck by the new optimism and enthusiasm that seem to have attached themselves to India, and especially to its economic prospects. More than...
...ways that standard income measures do not capture. Communication, knowledge and entertainment have become all but free. Few workers would want to go back to a world without the internet,...
...teaching standards moves forward. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/european-bid-compare-teaching-standards-moves-forward Times Higher Education. US universities warned admissions rules may deepen racial divide. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/us-universities-warned-admissions-rules-may-deepen-racial-divide Times Higher Education. The political is personal when a research grant is...
...hacking into US government networks and a possible decade in a US jail. The legislation used to single out and lock up these people is the Computer Fraud and Abuse...
...at firms’ ‘dangerous’ skills obsession https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-leaders-hit-out-firms-dangerous-skills-obsession Times Higher Education. Stanford dean questions ‘transformative impact’ of one- year MBA https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stanford-dean-questions-transformative-impact-one-year-mba Times Higher Education. Website offers ‘complete PhD service’ for £36K https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/website-offers-complete-phd-service-36-thousand-pounds...
...Selective universities appear not to increase inequality https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/01/05/selective-universities-appear-not-to-increase-inequality Enseignement Le nouvel Économiste. Les vieilles humanités au goût du jour. https://www.lenouveleconomiste.fr/les-vieilles-humanites-au-gout-du-jour-66641/ Les Échos. Écoles internationales : l’exécutif veut faire émerger une...
...powerful (and there’s often more than one), the TV is flat and gets 900 channels, and we expect the grocery store to have strawberries year-round and about 50 flavors of...