New grant delays hit Australian researchers
Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success
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‘Rip-off’ degrees rhetoric ignores awkward facts about apprenticeships
The UK needs a skills strategy that values the full variety of training and education pathways and reflects regional needs, says Neal Juster
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Degree-awarding powers confirmed for Dyson Institute
Inventor’s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process
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A legacy in stone: balancing sustainability with tradition
Achieving green goals isn’t easy at a centuries-old institution. Giacomo Bergamini and Simona Tondelli of the University of Bologna share their tips for embracing heritage while working towards...
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‘Where is my country’s next female vice-chancellor?’
Malawi’s first female university president Address Malata reflects on shaking up a male-dominated institution and why having more women on the faculty matters
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Two-thirds of Cambridge researchers on temporary contracts
Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report
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Sydney’s Palestine protest response criticised from all sides
V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’
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Dutch research funding cuts will ‘reverse years of progress’
Incoming right-wing government plans to reduce spending by €1 billion, just as efforts to reduce precarity and overwork were starting to have an effect
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Slashing HE courses will not help the next UK government boost growth
Undermining universities offering degrees to fund apprenticeships is poor policy. Here are some better ones, says Paul Baines
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Fees and teaching subsidies rise in New Zealand budget
First budget of new governing coalition seen as ‘neutral’ for universities as small increases in funding set to be offset by inflation
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China set to overtake Europe on English-taught degrees
Number of English-medium degrees on offer outside traditional anglophone destinations increases by 48 per cent in five years
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Will UK Labour’s research policy be tame or transformational?
Labour’s official science slate is dull but radical moves to reform research funding and engage industry could be close, experts believe
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Finland’s fee hike for non-European students ‘paradoxical’
Government proposes full-cost tuition plus application fees for non-EU applicants, while aiming for international recruitment increase
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Universities must do more to address student food insecurity
Working with established community networks can boost the quality and choice available in food banks, say Hilda Mulrooney and four co-authors
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Yale names Stony Brook’s Maurie McInnis as president
Alumnus and trustee to become Ivy League institution’s first non-interim female leader after narrowly avoiding faculty censure at Stony Brook