UCU: students ‘could apply to fewer universities’ under PQA model Union report on post-qualification admissions model also suggests that institutions should consider scrapping interviews Anna McKie 4月 29日
‘Truly extraordinary’: v-c’s £322K award gets long justification Statement in financial accounts explaining Bolton leader’s pay runs to almost two and a half pages Simon Baker 4月 29日
Pass sexual consent test if you want to enrol, say students Call comes after publication of thousands of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on UK campuses Anna McKie 4月 29日
‘Unprecedented’ UK aid cuts have ‘enormous’ impact on researchers Research council head calls for ‘long-term vision’ to end cross-border funding ‘volatility’ Jack Grove 4月 28日
Oxford doctoral system criticised as Wolf thesis finally released Lack of transparency in examinations under spotlight as US feminist’s dissertation finally lodged in Bodleian Jack Grove 4月 28日
Pandemic forces France to contemplate UK-style student loans Lockdowns decimated the part-time jobs on which French students relied, and debate is now under way over how to fix ‘broken’ system of state support David Matthews 4月 28日
Overseas research cuts threaten UK’s ‘levelling up’ agenda Imminent research cuts linked to GCRF reductions could fall heavily on UK’s regions, figures show Jack Grove 4月 28日
Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost? Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop Dorothy Bishop 4月 28日
Tory MPs urge minister to intervene over campus ‘antisemitism’ Education Committee chair says Bristol’s handling of David Miller case has created ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students akin to ‘1930s Germany’ John Morgan 4月 27日
French professor free to harass hydroxychloroquine critics online Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic David Matthews 4月 27日
Course closures ‘inevitable’ consequence of Westminster policy Aston and London South Bank are latest institutions to shutter humanities and social sciences degrees Anna McKie 4月 27日
EU-backed tool to combat cheating in online exams finally ready ‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out Anna McKie 4月 27日