23 novembre 2017

By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. More than half of all research papers published by academics in France and Britain now have at least one international co-author, the latest figures reveal. 
Analysis by publishing giant Elsevier showed that both countries pushed past the 50 percent mark for the first time in 2014, the most recent year for which complete data are available. In France, 51.6 percent of articles had at least one overseas collaborator, with the U.K. 0.3 percentage points behind. More...

By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Black academics will outnumber white academics within a decade. But progress has been greater at historically black institutions than predominantly white ones. More...

By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Winners share tips and the keys to their successes. Many cite luck as a factor.
Winning a Nobel Prize may seem like an absurdly ambitious goal for most scientists to even contemplate, but some researchers will admit to daydreaming about it. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Complaints about students praying loudly in the library and flooding bathrooms to ritually wash their feet have led the University of Hamburg to draw up a religious code of conduct, a first for a German university. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Students do not trust teaching by foreign lecturers who speak English with unfamiliar accents, as compared with teaching by native speakers, an academic has warned -- meaning that students may need to be trained to overcome this prejudice. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. The antiestablishment political party that swept to victory in the Czech Republic’s recent elections is likely to want the country’s universities to redirect teaching and research towards the needs of the economy, observers say. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. By 2024, the French president said, Europe should have "at least 20" of what he called "European universities," offering students the chance to "study abroad and take classes in at least two different languages." These European universities will help to "create a sense of belonging" that will be the "strongest cement for Europe," a later press release argued. More...