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UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds

Exclusive: university staff report being pressured to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rife

The Guardian - UK

Universities ‘on notice’ they could face penalties over free speech – minister

Baroness Jacqui Smith said the Government will ‘not tolerate the silencing of academics or students who voice legitimate views’.

The Independent UK

New law could see universities sanctioned if they fail to uphold free speech

The government says it will ‘not tolerate the silencing of academics or students who voice legitimate views’

The Independent UK

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Study to understand needs of children seeking help from NHS gender clinics

Academics from King’s College London will track up to 3,000 children as part of the research.

The Independent UK

Academics demand UK Government lift visa restrictions for trapped students in Gaza

MORE than 2000 academics from across the UK have demanded that the Labour Government remove visa restrictions for Palestinians with scholarships to…

The National (Scotland)

Plan to boost gender equity among engineering academics

Australia's engineering sector has systemic under-representation of women particularly in senior roles, but a university recruitment drive aims to change that.

AAP

‘We want women to have role models’: how Sydney University is enticing more female academics to engineering

A mass recruitment campaign with roles reserved solely for women has been launched at a faculty where fewer than one in five academics are female

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Freud Museum faces call for inquiry over bullying and board misconduct claims

Writers and academics urge charities regulator to investigate ‘serious issues’ with London institution

The Guardian - UK

A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism

Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration

The Independent UK

In Australia, the rules around academics sleeping with their students can be complicated. But is it ethical?

In Sweet Nothings, author Madison Griffiths investigates the uncomfortable complexities of “problematic sex” between academics and students on Australian university campuses.

The Conversation

A global treaty to limit plastic pollution is within reach – will countries seize the moment?

Representatives from 175 countries will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, in August for the final round of negotiations on a legally binding UN treaty to end plastic pollution. Non-governmental organisations, academics and industry lobbyists will also be in the room. They will all be hoping to influence what could be the…

The Conversation

Pandemic aged our brains – even those who never caught Covid, study finds

Academics suggest that the strain on people’s lives from isolation and uncertainty has impacted our health

The Independent UK

South African university programmes to support black students aren’t working. What needs to be done

Most universities and colleges have formal and informal programmes and initiatives to support student and staff development. Their goal is to create learning experiences that help students succeed academically. Typically, academic development practitioners design and run these programmes. They are usually academics themselves. To help students, they use tools like…

The Conversation

Protest crackdown creates 'culture of fear' on campuses

Academics, staff and students have detailed free speech concerns at Australia's top universities after a crackdown on pro-Palestine encampments.

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Trump’s Homeland Security Agents now just doing ICE’s dirty work, targeting pro-Palestinian academics

You must agree with how MAGA thinks or be targetted.

Reason

Life as an Academic Defender of the Intuitively Obvious

Academics are supposed to discover nonobvious, counterintituitive truths. But, especially in recent years, much of my work involves defending positions that seem obvious to most laypeople, even though many experts deny them.

The Guardian - UK

Genocide prevention could become legal priority for UK government

Cross-party group of lawyers, politicians and academics considers mechanism to prevent crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

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Creepy obsession to please Netanyahu — Now we’re hearing Trump used a Pro-Israel website to target academics

America first?

The Independent UK

Trump team has been using shadowy website that doxxed pro-Palestine academics and targets them for deportation

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified that a ‘tiger team’ of analysts used information from the Canary Mission website

The National (Scotland)

Israeli plan to force Palestinians into camps 'blueprint for crimes against humanity'

PLANS by Israel’s defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who described…

The Conversation

‘The customer is always right’: why some uni teachers give higher grades than students deserve

Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students achieve higher grades.

PC Gamer

Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

The researchers believe Farming Simulator can influence attitudes about real farming.

The Guardian - UK

‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia

AAP

'We're here': Australia joins the race for US academics

Australia is throwing its hat in the ring in the global contest to attract US academics amid President Donald Trump's adversarial approach to higher education.

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