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Contract faculty, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, International issues

Casual academics aren’t going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn’t affected?

Dorothy Wardale, Curtin University; Julia Richardson, Curtin University, and Yuliani Suseno, Edith Cowan University

Casual academics provide flexibility for universities at a time when student numbers are uncertain. from shutterstock.com More Australian universities are relying on […]

Universities: increasingly stressful environments taking psychological toll – here’s what needs to change

Luca Morini, Coventry University

shutterstock Every year, millions of international students travel to different countries to study at university. This, together with a lack of public […]

Unrealistic striving for academic excellence has a cost

Tanya Chichekian, Université de Sherbrooke

Skills of well-being have been forgotten partly due to a combination of educational reforms and societal pressures. Unsplash/Oscar Chevillard, CC BY-SA In […]

Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Université de l’Ontario français: a 21st-century university

Marc L. Johnson, Francophone Hub of Knowledge and Innovation

Ontario’s French community has been asking for a university governed by and for Francophones. Even without the support of the Ontario government, […]

Funding, International issues, Universities and the academic mission

Subsidized privilege: The real scandal of American universities

Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged 50 people — 38 of them are parents — for allegedly being involved in fraud schemes to […]

Research and innovation, Technology

Citizen science can help solve our data crisis

Tarun Katapally, University of Regina

Citizen science can help address data deficits. Shutterstock A recent news article in the Globe and Mail highlighted Canada’s data crisis and […]

Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation

University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis

Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires. Eric Chan/Flickr, CC […]

Equity and social justice, Participation and enrolment, Students, Universities and the academic mission

Supporting mature female students enrolling in university STEM programs

Liette Vasseur, Brock University

Mature women students face additional barriers when enrolling in STEM programs. Shutterstock Women face many barriers when it comes to post-secondary education, […]

Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation

All publicly funded research could soon be free for you, the taxpayer, to read

Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia and Kenneth Howah, CQUniversity Australia

The new ‘Plan S’ initiative focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately fully and freely available by open access publication. from […]

Equity and social justice, Health and safety

Overworked and isolated: the rising epidemic of loneliness in academia

Olivier Sibai, Birkbeck, University of London; Bernardo Figueiredo, RMIT University, and Marcia Christina Ferreira, Brunel University London

Shutterstock Universities were created to be places where people learn and educate together. But a UK survey has found 46% of researchers […]

Casual academics aren’t going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn’t affected?

Universities: increasingly stressful environments taking psychological toll – here’s what needs to change

Unrealistic striving for academic excellence has a cost

Université de l’Ontario français: a 21st-century university

Subsidized privilege: The real scandal of American universities

Citizen science can help solve our data crisis

University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

Supporting mature female students enrolling in university STEM programs

All publicly funded research could soon be free for you, the taxpayer, to read

Overworked and isolated: the rising epidemic of loneliness in academia

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