As universities have internationalised and academic careers have come to encompass relocation across countries and continents, it has often been argued that universities and their researchers have lost the ability to address the issues prevalent in the…
Category: internationalisation
The Home Office plan for ‘high potential visas’ is no master card
As the UK Home Office unveils plans to attract the “brightest and best” individuals to the UK, Johnny Rich outlines how using university league tables as a proxy measure to achieve this goal is unlikely to be successful. The UK Government has announced…
Vice-Chancellors should welcome staff participation in the governance of their university’s international partnerships
Universities and higher education institutions in the UK have a more international profile than at any prior point in their existence. As a consequence, they face entanglement in geopolitical issues. In this post, Andreas Fulda, John Heathershaw and An…
The 20:51 sprint (Roadmap team-building: UK edition)
This week we hosted the DMPTool team to flesh out our plans for ‘roadmap’ – the joint codebase we’re building together based on DMPonline and DMPTool. The key focus was reviewing and prioritising tasks for an initial release. &n…
DMPonline: new release
We’re pleased to announce a new release to DMPonline , the DCC’s online tool for Data Management Planning. The new release includes:
A comment feature to enable collaborators to share ideas and feedback when co-writing plans
Improved…