Confucius Institute crackdown predicted as global inquiries mount Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts Ellie Bothwell 4月 12日
Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism, by Nisha Kapoor Laleh Khalili ponders how the eschewing of Muslim suspects’ human rights affects us all Laleh Khalili 4月 12日
Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into – and Out of – Violent Extremism, by Michel Kimmel Matthew Feldman considers an exploration of the perception of masculinity and its effects on extremism Matthew Feldman 4月 12日
Smartest in class: male students ‘overestimate’ intelligence It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side John Ross 4月 5日
Stop funding research that ignores sex and gender, says expert Stanford's Londa Schiebinger warns that failure to account for differing impact of interventions on men and women is costing lives Rachael Pells 4月 4日
Public universities majority funded by tuition in most US states Higher education finance report says states must redress balance of public university funding Ellie Bothwell 4月 3日
US research agencies and universities navigate budget ‘shambles’ Delay and unpredictability of spending bill raises questions over the ‘effectiveness’ of increased investment, say policy experts Ellie Bothwell 4月 1日
Cheap flights increase research collaboration, study finds Expansion of US carrier associated with increase in partnerships of more than 30 per cent Rachael Pells 3月 30日
Saba Mahmood, 1962-2018 Tributes paid to anthropologist who specialised in study of modern Egypt Matthew Reisz 3月 29日
Students protest plans to cut humanities at Wisconsin campus University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point proposes to eliminate 13 arts majors to manage deficit of $4.5 million (?3.2 million) over two years Ellie Bothwell 3月 27日
Professor apologises as ‘white engineers’ email falls flat Binghamton University, State University of New York academic’s response to fundraising dinner invitation for National Society of Black Engineers branded ‘deeply offensive’ Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 3月 26日
‘No educational advantage’ from gruelling intern shifts While supervisors say protracted shifts are a crucial part of medical education, new research finds no benefit John Ross 3月 21日
