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Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.

Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.

This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.

Metrics of Inequality: The Concentration of Resources in the U.S. Biomedical Elite

Metrics of Inequality: The Concentration of Resources in the U.S. Biomedical Elite

Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.

How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.

U.S. Accuses Harvard Scientist of Concealing Chinese Funding

U.S. Accuses Harvard Scientist of Concealing Chinese Funding

Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard's chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

Thousands of Universities Join Wave of Climate Emergency Declarations

Thousands of Universities Join Wave of Climate Emergency Declarations

The climate emergency movement is heading to school. Global higher education networks tying together more than 7000 universities and colleges from across the globe declared a climate emergency and published a three-point plan to confront the escalating environmental crisis.

Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions

Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions

While research data support units now exist in many universities, these are typically not able to provide discipline-specific expertise or resources. This article focuses on the Data Champion Programme at the University of Cambridge, which empowers discipline-specific expertise already embedded within each unit to advocate for good RDM and to deliver support locally.

Indicators of Open Access for Universities

Indicators of Open Access for Universities

This paper presents a first attempt to analyse Open Access integration at the institutional level. For this, we combine information from Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking to offer basic OA indicators for universities. OA indicators are also disaggregated by green, gold and hybrid Open Access. We then explore differences between and within countries and offer a general ranking of universities based on the proportion of their output which is openly accessible.

Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System

Globalisation, Localisation and Glocalisation of University-Business Research Cooperation: General Patterns and Trends in the UK University System

Exploratory study presenting a new systematic way of looking at ‘university-business interactions’ in the UK university system.

Have University Leaders Changed After the Vice-chancellor Pay Scandal?

Have University Leaders Changed After the Vice-chancellor Pay Scandal?

After a troubled year for universities, the next generation of leaders is emerging. They're tech savvy, low ego and skilled in soft power

British Public Proud of the UK's Universities, New Poll Reveals

British Public Proud of the UK's Universities, New Poll Reveals

There is a myth that the public are sceptical about the merits of universities. In fact, as this research shows, the opposite is true. The public are hugely positive towards universities and see the benefits of a university education.

The Enemy Within - Why the Narrative About Universities and Students Went So Wrong

The Enemy Within - Why the Narrative About Universities and Students Went So Wrong

From Margaret Thatcher to Generation Snowflake, Keith Joseph to Sam Gyimah, why and how have universities and students found themselves so firmly on the wrong side of public opinion? And what are we going to do about it?