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What could the rise of the AfD mean for German universities?

With its Trump-style promise to smash woke ideology on campus, Germany’s far-right populist party is widely seen as a threat by academics. And with even the country’s mainstream parties promising little for higher education or research, few are relishing Sunday’s election. Emily Dixon reports

By Emily Dixon

21 February

Staff voice can bring proper scrutiny of UK higher education meltdown

More transparent and democratic decision-making within UK universities could have helped institutions avoid the financial mistakes that are now resulting in mass redundancies, argue Nicholas Grant and Nadine Zubair

By Nicholas Grant

21 February

University libraries must be ‘access brokers’, not knowledge repositories

Subscribing to nearly everything published by journals is no longer feasible in these financially straitened times but librarians can provide creative workarounds to ensure journal access, says Liam Bullingham

By Liam Bullingham

19 February

Academics must challenge selective empathy fuelled by social media

Delayed introduction of England’s campus free speech act will help scholars confront bias confirmation propagated by social media bubbles, argue Carla Ferstman and Faten Ghosn

By Carla Ferstman

18 February

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