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The year is ending with an ongoing permacrisis for higher education. Political rhetoric has improved but the sector still needs a vision for its future
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Curtin University opens ‘fully fledged’ Sri Lanka campus
‘Purpose-built’ facilities will help improve student mobility around the Indian Ocean rim, says Perth-based university
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Employers ‘must accept’ graduates are not ‘finished product’
Skills development is job of whole society, not just universities, conference hears
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Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme
Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections
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Universities lukewarm on MEPs’ research funding proposals
Dividing second pillar of FP10 into two councils could ‘weaken programme’s collaborative spirit’, European umbrella body warns
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How to start the academic day productively
With working hours full of interruptions, early mornings offer the best chance to pursue labours of love. But how to get going – especially if you are not a morning person? Three scholars debate the...
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Interview with Siobhan O’Neill
Mental health advocate discusses growing up amid the Troubles, speaking truth to power, and what’s wrong with photos
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‘Fear and intimidation’ hurt campus free speech – survey
Vast majority of scholars admit self-censoring over fears they will be targeted by students or academics, suggests Times Higher Education’s free speech survey
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The week in higher education – 5 December 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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More managed HE sector ‘could see autonomy traded for stability’
While it may be reluctant to attempt widespread reform of universities, economic circumstances may force Labour’s hand, experts believe
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‘Worrying’ decline in university-business collaboration in UK
Major survey of industry-academia relationships reveals slowdown in business interactions and income since pandemic
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Contextual admissions only helps ‘lucky few’, universities warned
Social Mobility Commission says lowering entry grades for disadvantaged applicants is yet to have a ‘noticeable impact’ on inequality
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Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
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The Times Higher Education academic freedom survey 2024
As wars, both real and cultural, rage around the world, disputes about academic freedom are becoming ever more fraught. Is freedom of speech under threat on campus? And are some restrictions a...
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Why are academic authors treated as disposably as sperm donors?
Publishers used to recognise that theirs was a relationships business. But now the road to immortality is much lonelier, says Adrian Furnham