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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

The world of higher education was shocked when Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University, stepped down after an independent review found his published research fell short of “scientific rigor and process” and was mired with flaws and manipulated data. The latter may be the worst culprit. What can we do?

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Scholar focuses on LGBTQ in China's universities

Inside Higher Ed

Despite an increasingly repressive environment in Chinese universities, there continues to be a “huge gap” in scholarly research on queerness in Chinese academia, according to Cui Le, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who has made it his mission to tell the world about the country’s largely invisible gay scholars.

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Israel: BGU launches new aid scholarships

The PIE News

Aliyah to Academia is a new and unique annual program, designed for immigrants from Russian-speaking countries aged 17-27, interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering and natural sciences at BGU.