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Foreign academics ‘in debt’ after paying thousands in UK visa fees

26 April

Overseas students ‘more likely’ to appeal UK university decisions

26 April

Value for money is not only about individuals

Better recognition of the wider social benefits of both teaching and research would help universities regain public goodwill, says Nick Petford

By Nick Petford

26 April

Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?

Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why

By David Matthews

26 April

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The best universities in New Europe

25 April

No more graduates needed: Switzerland goes it alone on HE

25 April

Europe research gap ‘worsened by easy EU money’

25 April

The best universities in New Europe

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Big data ‘key to widening antimicrobial resistance fight’

Incorporation of AMR in Global Burden of Disease study could be game changer in securing more government funding

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By Ellie Bothwell

Emerging Economies Summit

8 May - 10 May 2018

Rabat, Morocco

Career advice: how to manage a public relations crisis

The dawn of the digital age means universities must rethink how they respond to negative headlines, according to a new book

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News

Foreign academics ‘in debt’ after paying thousands in UK visa fees

Big hikes in visa, right to remain fees bring ‘under the radar’ issue to fore and prompt post-Brexit worries for EU staff

By Rachael Pells

26 April

Overseas students ‘more likely’ to appeal UK university decisions

OIA report reveals payout of almost £50k to an international PhD student kicked off their course

By Jack Grove

26 April

Rector in sabotaged car crash

Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers

By David Matthews

26 April

Student feedback on Facebook could be ‘very useful’ for regulators

By Chris Havergal

26 April

Teacher shortage looms in Australia as entry requirements rise

By John Ross

26 April

Beware ‘Streisand effect’ on contract cheating, UK’s QAA hears

By Jack Grove

26 April

Europe research gap ‘worsened by easy EU money’

By David Matthews

25 April

Collaborative networks ‘key to widening antibiotic resistance fight’

By Simon Baker

26 April

London Business School dean: more to an MBA than earning power

By Sophie Inge

26 April

Russian students asked to return home

By Jack Grove

26 April

Game of thrones: Paris business school incubates toilet innovation

By Matthew Reisz

26 April

Publishers split over how to tackle ResearchGate

By David Matthews

25 April

Subversion is at the heart of the academy

Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray

26 April

Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?

Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why

Why do educators struggle with the legacy of empire?

A lack of intellectual and cultural willingness to open up historical discussions about the UK’s imperial past make it a difficult subject for students and scholars to get to grips with, argues Scott Anthony

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Opinion

By Nick Petford

Value for money is not only about individuals

Better recognition of the wider social benefits of both teaching and research would help universities regain public goodwill, says Nick Petford

26 April

Moocs are a solution in search of a problem

If microcredentials could only gain the trust of employers and workers, platforms would have a golden goose on their hands, says Chris Fellingham

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Progress on women in STEM is starting to unravel

Thirty years on from the start of the push to get more girls into science, the sense of urgency and commitment is waning, says Karen Russ

Decisive action is needed to address the gender pay gap

By Anthony Forster

25 April

Students must lead the fight for fewer guns on US campuses

By Sarah Kenny

24 April

Dare to be positive about Europe’s lowest-performing regions

By Jan Palmowski

24 April

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By Laurie Taylor

26 April

Policy watch

PJ Thum’s treatment will dampen Singaporean academics’ willingness to speak out

Politicians’ disparagement of historian’s research signals that alternative interpretations of the city state’s past will not be tolerated, says Linda Lim

World insight

Students protest for greater gun control

Students must lead the fight for fewer guns on US campuses

It’s time for students to step in and end the political stalemate on stopping gun violence on university campuses, says Sarah Kenny

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In a populist era, Europe’s universities are progressive strongholds

Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent

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By Jack Grove

The USS strike and the winter of academics’ discontent

The protests against pensions reforms reflect not just self-interest but also anger about working conditions and a sense that universities are losing their way. Jack Grove explores how proposed changes to the USS strained and broke bonds of trust

12 April

University and College Union members demonstrate during pensions row

Book Reviews

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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell

Book of the week: Rachel Moss praises a study that peels back the skin of a misunderstood era often defined by death

26 April

A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, by Alain Corbin

Joe Moran enters another dimension, one marked by the absence of sound. Next stop, the quiet zone

Life with Lacan, by Catherine Millot

A lyrical memoir of a writer and psychoanalyst’s romantic and intellectual relationship with Lacan shows that psychoanalysis is very much the art of the enigmatic vignette, says Benjamin Poore

Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation, by The Multigraph Collective

Abigail Williams enjoys this demonstration of the many ways in which publications make meaning

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson

Nathan Abrams admires an impressively researched, behind-the-scenes look at a science fiction classic

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Books interview: Kalwant Bhopal

The author and professor of education and social justice discusses white privilege, Leonard Cohen, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

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Rankings

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Foreign academics ‘in debt’ after paying thousands in UK visa fees

Overseas students ‘more likely’ to appeal UK university decisions

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Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?

Emerging Economies Summit to take place in Morocco

Career advice: how to manage a public relations crisis

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Foreign academics ‘in debt’ after paying thousands in UK visa fees

Overseas students ‘more likely’ to appeal UK university decisions

Rector in sabotaged car crash

Student feedback on Facebook could be ‘very useful’ for regulators

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Europe research gap ‘worsened by easy EU money’

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London Business School dean: more to an MBA than earning power

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