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    Universities urged to hire staff to investigate sexual harassment

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    Richard Adams - The Guardian

    A report commissioned by Advance Higher Education evaluated more than 100 pilot schemes funded by the Office for Students and revealed incidents of hate crimes, sexual violence and harassment at 84 universities and colleges Despite the recent statistics, many universities in England have no dedicated staff to investigate sexual misconduct.

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    Few UK universities have adopted rules against impact-factor abuse

    UK

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    Nisha Gaind - Nature

    A survey of British institutions reveals that few have taken concrete steps to stop the much-criticized misuse of research metrics in the evaluation of academics’ work. The results offer an early insight into global efforts to clamp down on such practices.
    DORA calls for panels responsible for academic promotion and hiring to stop misusing metrics such as the journal impact factor — which measures the average number of citations accumulated by papers in a given journal over two years — as a way to assess individual researchers. It urges panels to assess the content of papers and quality of research instead.

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