Blue-sky thinking
THE’s flagship summit began with a focus on immediate funding woes but ended with a reaffirmation of universities’ founding principles
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‘Distorted’ research funding split ‘driving regional inequality’
Liverpool vice-chancellor argues that conducting more research outside London and south-east of England would improve healthcare and educational outcomes
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Regulation grows as international education enters ‘managed era’
‘Layers and layers of interventions’ will not be a temporary phenomenon, analyst warns
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Reputation voting behaviour in the Arab University Rankings
We are taking action to mitigate the effects of irregular voting patterns from a small number of institutions, says David Watkins
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The week in higher education – 24 October 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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English universities say OfS relations improved, but ‘more to do’
Question remain over regulator’s political neutrality and extent of ‘meaningful’ dialogue with sector
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Will Trump-lit affect the US election?
Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 prompted a slew of academic books grappling with how such a figure could have been chosen to lead the free world. But what are the chances that any of...
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Some Russell Group academics ‘treat administrators like scum’
Researcher describes ‘fraught’ tensions between working-class professional service employees and academics at leading UK universities
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‘Bleak outlook’ as falling demand quashes enrolment growth hopes
Universities will struggle to grow their way out of current financial crisis as predictions of 350,000 more students by 2035 now seen as unrealistic
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Polish academics ambivalent about Tusk government one year in
Academic freedom constraints of previous Law and Justice administration come to an end, but funding concerns remain, researchers say
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Interview with Sam Wass
Expert in early years development at the University of East London discusses working with children, translating his work for a TV audience and why more scholars should consider leaving the research...
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Scrapping the REF would jeopardise the UK’s dual research funding
Better to work with an exercise that justifies block funding and drives many desirable behaviours within universities, say Anton Muscatelli and Miles Padgett
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Universities want help if national insurance extended to pensions
Vice-chancellors want access to support for public sector organisations if expected levying of national insurance on employers’ pension contributions goes ahead
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Hong Kong leader warns mainland students on fake degrees
Island’s chief executive instructs universities to strengthen vetting processes as plans to attract more offshore students ramp up
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Teach more overseas students offshore, urges Australian minister
International education is ‘not a one-way street’, Canberra insists, as it limits inbound travel