Interview with Sarah Dryden-Peterson
The Harvard refugee education expert discusses teaching classes of 200 pupils, living in post-apartheid South Africa and why she is optimistic for the children she meets in migrant camps
The Harvard refugee education expert discusses teaching classes of 200 pupils, living in post-apartheid South Africa and why she is optimistic for the children she meets in migrant camps
Rapid erosion of value of £9,250 is ‘stretching unit of resource to breaking point’ and will require new legislation, says Jo Johnson
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
As precarity affects ever more academics for ever longer, many have come to see a permanent position as the gateway to professional happiness. But does it always work out that way? Or do the...
To better respond to regional need, England’s higher and further education sectors should be unified and devolved, says Michael Shattock
Going swimmingly: What’s the happiest academic career stage?
‘Unclear’ status of main UK science funder has led to slow decision-making, inefficiency and limited cross-disciplinary research, finds report
Independent quality body steps back from providing assessments for OfS due to non-compliance with European standards
Clash over officials’ salaries occurs against a backdrop of resentment over union leadership’s pandemic tactics
Successful replication efforts heavily tied to whether original research team allowed a role, finds study of contentious psychology field
Survey finds two-thirds of students go without ‘basics’ and renters pass 56 per cent of their meagre incomes to landlords
Administrators are noting who is signing petitions critical of government or speaking out publicly, lecturers say
With UK academics no longer on call, the dispensing of assurance in the small hours has been left to guards, says George Bass
Universities can now register to participate in the next edition of our sustainability-focused league table
Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford will lead UK’s new ‘high risk, high reward’ scientific research agency