Proportion of female winners of top ERC grants dips
UK-based recipients of Advanced Grants will still have to move institution to secure Brussels funding, despite Horizon Europe association deal
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US degree completions slide downwards
Steepest recorded decline in college graduation numbers joins sliding enrolment and unprecedented campus closures among major nationwide warning signs
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Interview with Kenneth Womack
Professor reflects on Liverpool’s ‘literary greats’ and how a lost archive led to his ‘warts and all’ profile of the Fab Four and their road manager
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Beware the public backlash from ‘science triumphalism’
A radical new manifesto for science communication is warning about the dangers of making arrogant claims that academic knowledge can explain the mysteries of the universe. Matthew Reisz meets its...
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Students back employer levy to fund English higher education
Hepi report on funding options, aimed at stopping politicians from ‘keeping shtum’, sees v-c back a graduate tax as ‘genuinely progressive’
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The OfS’ free speech guidance for English universities goes too far
The regulator’s example scenarios fail to acknowledge the harm that even lawful speech can cause on campus, say Naomi Waltham-Smith and James Murray
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Universities tear up academic calendars to offer flexible study
Changing term dates leaves staff fearing extra workload pressures and encroachments on research time and summer breaks
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The week in higher education – 11 April 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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US faculty and campus leaders split wider over free speech
AAUP plans dozens of events on day of new congressional hearing against student protests, challenging university leaders to better protect academic independence
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Have universities failed teacher education?
England’s Department for Education has deaccredited some universities while approving a range of alternative providers and strictly defining course contents. But while defenders hail an evidence-...
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Evaristo fears Goldsmiths cuts imperil black literature master’s
Booker Prize-winning author is latest arts leader to speak out against job shedding at celebrated university
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Japan’s scientists struggle to share research despite policy push
With general public’s trust in science reaching new highs, researchers want more help to communicate their findings
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Open-access books will push art history out of the picture
Extra costs linked to proposed new Research Excellence Framework rules could send art history departments to the wall, warns Francesca Berry
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Loan forgiveness found to deter students from better funding options
US central bank finds Biden’s promises on debt are potentially turning borrowers away from loans with more favourable repayment plans
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Hong Kong housing failing to keep up with overseas student growth
While enrolment rates are set to surge at the island’s universities, progress on the development of student housing has been slow