Defining the great universities of the 21st century - timeshighereducation.com, 05.11.2017
5 November, 2017 - 18:44

Nancy Rothwell and Glyn Davis write from the Global University Engagement Summit in Melbourne.
What are universities good for? While often the most significant academic breakthroughs take place on university campuses, it is in our...

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Forschung: Wissenschaftsministerium soll eigenständig werden - derstandard.at, 03.11.2017
5 November, 2017 - 18:43

Wissenschaftsrat, die Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft und der UniversitätsprofessorInnenverband stellen Forderungen an ÖVP und FPÖ.
Quelle: APA

Koalition: Forschungsverbände fordern Fokus auf Unis und Wissenschaft - APA, 03.11.2017
5 November, 2017 - 18:40

Wien (APA) - Die laufenden Koalitionsverhandlungen zwischen der ÖVP und der FPÖ nutzen der Wissenschaftsrat, die Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (ÖFG) und der UniversitätsprofessorInnenverband (UPV) für Aufrufe zur Aufwertung der...

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Forschungspolitik: Limitiert die Wörter! - sueddeutsche.de, 03.11.2017
5 November, 2017 - 18:39

Die Flut an Informationen verstopft Bibliotheken und behindert die Wahrheitsfindung mehr als sie ihr nützt.
Ein interessanter Vorschlag aus den USA: Jeder Forscher sollte nur eine begrenzte Menge von Wörtern in seiner Karriere...

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Nicholas Dirks: life on the fault line - timeshighereducation.com, 02.11.2017
2 November, 2017 - 09:09

The former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley explains how he navigated protests from both the Left and Right, and threatening tweets from President Trump.
By John Gill  Twitter: @JG_THE

The AI future: Big tech firms' AI hiring frenzy leads to brain drain at UK universities - theguardian.com, 02.11.2017
2 November, 2017 - 09:08

High demand at companies such as Google could leave fewer talented scientists to teach next generation, academics fear.
British universities are being stripped of artificial intelligence (AI) experts in a brain drain to the private...

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France’s most iconic university, the Sorbonne, is reborn - timeshighereducation.com, 02.11.2017
2 November, 2017 - 09:05

Almost 50 years after it was dismantled, the celebrated institution is making a comeback.
Few universities loom as large in the public’s imagination as “the Sorbonne” – known more prosaically as the University of Paris.
By ...

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Campaign launched to lift ban on posthumous Nobel prize awards - timeshighereducation.com, 02.11.2017
2 November, 2017 - 08:56

Efforts by granddaughter of William Carlos Williams to persuade the Nobel Foundation to acknowledge the US poet could open door for other disciplines.
By Jack Grove  Twitter: @jgro_the

Brexit witch-hunt against universities reveals the right’s paranoid thinking - theguardian.com, 31.10.2017
31 October, 2017 - 08:39

Why stop at Heaton-Harris’s demand for names of Brexit academics? Business leaders and judges too are ‘enemies of the people’.
hen the wind is blowing in a certain direction, it can be hard to avoid the bad smell. First we have ...

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Complaints force university to draw up religious code of conduct - timeshighereducation.com, 31.10.2017
31 October, 2017 - 08:37

At the University of Hamburg, new rules leave it up to lecturers to decide whether the full face veil disrupts their teaching.
Complaints about students praying loudly in the library and flooding bathrooms to ritually wash their...

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