14 March 2024 digital edition
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Students ‘particularly vulnerable’ to ‘sex for rent’ scams
Sinn Féin proposes bill in Irish Dáil that would make it an offence for landlords to seek sex in exchange for rental housing
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Soft power pioneer: policy clout loses edge outside government
After a career spent switching between academia and the White House, Joseph Nye admits that returning to Harvard left him feeling flat
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Don’t ditch research quality benchmarks, universities say
Australian institutions say new research rules are not to blame as registration delays stretch on
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Hong Kong nears first universities of applied sciences
Upgraded institutions seen as a way to meet talent demands in the Greater Bay Area
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UKRI ‘must regain trust’ of equality committee in Donelan row
Funder keen to reconvene advisory group, but professor says he wants reassurance that lessons have been learned from controversial investigation
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Universities have moral obligations – but not to take moral positions
Institutions must instead provide fora and establish rules for debating issues and their moral implications, says Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
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Arizona under pressure over Ashford student loan debt
As pressure builds for the University of Idaho to reconsider buying the University of Phoenix, a similar previous deal a thousand miles to the south finds mounting scrutiny
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The Gaza war shows why boosting understanding is humanities’ key role
Our department obliges Jewish studies students to study Islamic civilisation and vice versa. But will extremism put off applicants, asks Jonathan Judaken
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Social media abusers ‘a loud minority’
Commentators under fire for doing their job should remember their ‘silent’ supporters, says author of harassment survival guide
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Our new Saudi partnership is a huge opportunity for UK science
UK universities should leverage Saudi resources to build partnerships that will advance science and technology for mutual benefit, says Andrew Griffith
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Taylor & Francis acquires open-access publisher PeerJ
Deal ‘an important step in PeerJ’s evolution’, co-founders say
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French funding cuts ‘contradict’ Macron’s research pledge
Minister argues €900 million will have limited impact on science, but sector leaders are unconvinced
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Will Jo Grady’s wafer-thin mandate weaken union bargaining hand?
Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union
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National Science Foundation set for budget cut
Year after a strong boost, agency’s gamble on translational division gets knocked down as part of wider election-year retreat by Congress from federal science spending