News: academic

Springer Nature reports 15.12% pay gap

Scholarly publisher Springer Nature has reported a 15.21% median gender pay gap between men and women working at the company in the UK. Read more

Pearson reports 21% mean gender pay gap

Pearson has filed its gender pay gap report ahead of new government regulations, showing its overall median gender pay gap in 2017 was 15%, while the mean gap was 21%. ... Read more

Cutting spend on textbooks is a ‘false economy’, says PA

The Publishers Association says school textbooks only need to save teachers four and a half minutes a day to pay for themselves, arguing that not buying them to... Read more

Sage founder McCune to receive LBF Lifetime Achievement Award

Sara Miller McCune, founder and executive chairman of Sage Publishing, is to be awarded the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2018. ... Read more

Academic Book Week to run in April

A third Academic Book Week has been confirmed for the latter part of April, although without support of an official funding partner. Read more

'Extraordinary' year for Yale University Press London

Yale University Press London had "an extraordinary year" in the 12 months ending 30th June 2017, with net sales growth of 30%, according to its... Read more

Pearson returns to profit, PRH revenue up 'slightly'

Pearson has returned to profit a year after posting its biggest ever loss, at the same time as announcing it is putting its K12 school courseware... Read more

Taylor & Francis scraps extra charges after university protests

Taylor & Francis has backtracked over plans to charge extra for access to older research papers online, after more than 110 universities signed a letter... Read more

Publishers challenge HEFCE over OA monograph plans

University press publishers have challenged the head of research policy at funder HEFCE over plans to require all monographs to be published Open Access to... Read more

Pinter wins inaugural UP Redux Award

Knowledge Unlatched founder Frances Pinter has been named the winner of the first University Press Redux Award. Read more

Clarivate to re-establish Institute for Scientific Information

Clarivate Analytics is to re-establish the Institute for Scientific Information, in a new incarnation which Annette Thomas, c.e.o. of Clarivate's Scientific and Academic Research Group,... Read more

Kate Harris to retire at OUP's Oxford Education

Kate Harris, m.d. of Oxford University Press’ Oxford Education division, is to retire from her role in the last quarter of this year.... Read more

BESA to run EdTech Exchange in joint venture with founders

The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) is to take on the operational running of start-up mentoring organisation EdTech Exchange, in a joint venture with its... Read more

Collins Learning promotes Eardley and Mooney

Collins Learning has promoted Sam Eardley and Ian Mooney to newly-created positions as part of its "significant new assessment business strand"... Read more