The MRC’s new centre funding regime will maximise medical impact
Centres of Research Excellence, officially launched today, will also strengthen the UK’s leading position in biomedical sciences, says Patrick Chinnery
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University funding challenges imperil widening access efforts
Event hears that cold spots in provision must still be addressed
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Use AI to fix ‘broken’ courses, not scale them – edtech pioneer
Impact of AI on education may be overestimated unless used to rethink traditions, says technologist
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Max Lu to swap Surrey for Wollongong as vice-chancellor
Homecoming of sorts for Chinese-Australian vice-chancellor
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Online Learning Rankings 2024: results announced
Eleven universities across four continents are awarded gold in first attempt to measure online learning on a global basis
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Australian international student caps ‘will be revived’
Anticipated approach of rewriting ministerial direction would not require parliamentary approval
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Concerns over lack of oversight for privately funded research
Controversial study that conducted brainwave training on children in Indigenous areas reveals some troubling truths about Canada’s research system
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Can a centuries-old federated model really save universities?
The University of London has been held up as an example of how institutions can collaborate during tough financial times. But how easy would it be to replicate elsewhere?
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Average student rent in London now above maximum maintenance loan
One in seven student rooms in UK capital now costs more than £20,000 annually, up from one in 20 just two years ago
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A year in, how are we even surviving as academics in Milei’s Argentina?
The far-right president rails against academics’ supposed sense that they are superior. A scholar forced to sell books to make ends meet feels anything but
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Jewish students ‘alienated’ as antisemitic incidents at new high
Number of university-related antisemitic incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust doubles, with spike of reports in October 2023
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Melbourne pledges A$72 million back pay and ‘contrition payment’
‘Enforceable agreement’ with leading university ‘an example for all large employers’, says workplace watchdog
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The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame
Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers
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India journal subscription deal comes up against open access goal
One Nation One Subscription deal agreed with major academic publishers after five years of negotiations, but some believe academia is moving on
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Vice-chancellor got £288,000 payout on sudden exit from Leeds
Simone Buitendijk worked just a few months of the last academic year but received over £430,000 in total remuneration