Open Access Publishing idea is to provide people, independently of where they live, with equal access to knowledge and information online. Particularly it is important to developing countries and regions which have higher inequality. Until the emergence of the internet, the academic community relied heavily on research articles in expensive offline scientific journals published by many commercial publishing houses in the Western world. Very small […]Read More
Students call for clearer guidance on compensations Student communities call for clearer guidance and extra funding to cover compensation. The UK government should provide more information for students about the study fees. For example when university students could get a refund or repeat part of their course in light of the coronavirus. It should […]Read More
Most doctoral candidates show ‘clear preference’ for academic career despite high exit levels from sector, finds Higher Education Policy Institute study. Two-thirds of UK-based PhD students intend to pursue a career in academic research even though most doctoral degree recipients leave academia within three and a half years, a study has found. Drawing on previously unpublished […]Read More
Students who hold stronger beliefs in free will perform better on academic tasks and achieve better course grades throughout a semester, says the study’s author. The practice of studying relentlessly to achieve exam success may have just been quashed if one new study’s theory is anything to go by which claims to have found the key to academic success – […]Read More
There are only 25 black female professors in the UK, making up 0.1 percent of all professors. A pervasive culture of bullying and stereotyping at UK universities is blocking the professorial paths for black female academics, a report has warned. The minority group has to work harder and employ mentally draining strategies at speed to […]Read More
At the height of the Covid-19 crisis 1.6 billion children from around the world were sent home and the school gates were closed. But this figure excludes the 258 million children who were already out of school with no access to education – 59 million at primary level, according to Unesco’s Institute for Statistics. The […]Read More
Universities moved online in response to coronavirus, but experts predict some changes will outlast the pandemic. In the early medieval universities of Europe, masters stood at the front of a hall, reading excerpts from texts and commenting on them, while students copied down notes word for word. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Today’s […]Read More
Conducted a survey to assess the university staff’s satisfaction with their senior managers. We had more than 5,500 responses and the results highlight many of the issues academics are currently facing. In the main, academics expressed their discontentment at how in recent years, more and more metrics – measures of performance, productivity and quality – […]Read More
Pastoral support for east Asian students has been re-engineered during the lockdown and may offer lessons for the future. As coronavirus forced the suspension of on-campus teaching around the world this spring, most students packed their bags and headed home early. But for many Chinese students studying overseas, this was not an option: China curtailed […]Read More
Today we would like to talk about women and events. How women can become more successful by attending a good event? Harward Business Review has published a study of 2,600 working women across functions and industries attending Conferences in several U.S. states and examined several outcomes that occurred in the year after the women attended […]Read More
