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Universities have a crucial role to play in reducing the public service’s reliance on private consultants. : Rut Mit via Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/hpRGrfOIybc) Unsplash Licence

There is no question that we need a more active, creative and capable public service. To do that education and research in the area needs urgent attention.

The consultancy conundrum

Universities can help fix governments hooked on consultants

There is no question that we need a more active, creative and capable public service. To do that education and research in the area needs urgent attention.

Education
India’s One Nation, One Subscription plan would give public libraries like this access to the worlds top scholarly journals. : raghavvidya, Flickr CC 2.0

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

Science for all

India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

Science
Impact factors, citation counts, and university rankings are about as useful to science as another consonant is to this player. : Cedric Chapuis (Flickr) CC 2.0

Science is obsessed with measurements of success. Very few of them mean much at all.

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Success without substance

Science is obsessed with measurements of success. Very few of them mean much at all.

Science
Financial barriers posed by global publishing houses have inspired African scholars to find new ways of sharing information. : University of Cape Town CC 4.0

Attempts to more fairly share scientific knowledge have had the opposite effect in Africa. But a new initiative is bringing true equity.

Science for all

How Africa is overcoming ‘knowledge colonialism’

Science
Open access in Indonesia, prestige over crisis? : “MIT+150: FAST (Festival of Art + Science + Technology): FAST LIGHT” by Chris Devers is available at https://bit.ly/3jeYLzv CC by 2.0

Prestige drove Indonesian universities to open their research to the world. Now they need to tidy their files.

Science for all

Indonesian research access: quantity over quality?

Education
Indian science has been distracted from its plan to share research findings : CDC Global Health CC 2.0

India was an early leader in sharing research and information for science. But it has fumbled since then.

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India’s fumbled chance for sharing knowledge

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Roughly half of the world’s research publications are paywalled. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

A big issue for publishing scientific research has been the cost. With the push for open access, new business models create new challenges for equitable access.

 

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Universities around Malaysia appear to be turning a blind eye towards reports of sexual harassment on campuses. : Nafise Motlaq, World Bank (Flickr) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

In the face of silence from their universities, students have taken to social media to demand better action against sexual harassment and assault.

Standing up to violence against women

Universities find they can’t silence victims of sexual assault

Education
Fighting against gender violence remains an uphill struggle in Singapore where the government seems more reactive than proactive and most people are more cautious in standing up against institutions and speaking up. : Charles Postiaux (Unsplash) Unsplash license

#MeToo may not have garnered much traction in Singapore but that didn’t stop women from demanding change.

Standing up to violence against women

Singapore catches the #MeToo train

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