Expect the unexpected: the role of serendipity in science
Italian biologist makes the case for slower and smaller research
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Catholic university pays A$1.1 million to abortion row law dean
Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers
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Great holidays can fuel our intellectual passions
As an academic, I have found my best holidays to be anything but a vacation from intellectual life, says Lincoln Allison
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Anticipation and angst as Australia changes casualisation laws
With a six-month sunset and short-term contracts off the table, administrators can no longer rely on insecure teachers for certainty
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British lecturers suing Italy for £300,000 in ‘lettori’ dispute
Row over payment of foreign lecturers has stretched on for three decades
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Excluding nationalities from research collaboration ‘ineffective’
Security expert questions the approach, amid reports of Australia’s first ‘nationality ban’
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Three years after I escaped Kabul my UK university dream has come true
Refugee student Naweed Zafary recalls harrowing scenes as the Taliban took power and thousands fought for places on the last flights out of Afghanistan
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How did BPP University become a £2.5 billion behemoth?
Partnerships and flexibility seen as key to company’s continued growth but others may struggle to follow in its path
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No word on fate of Australian student visa delay rule
Canberra yet to clarify future of ‘ministerial direction 107’ despite touting enrolment caps as a replacement
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‘Direct to clearing’ plays growing role in UK admissions
Record number of students win places having applied after main sector deadlines
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Falling visa applications hit non-Russell Group campuses hardest
The vast majority of the fall in student visa numbers can be attributed to large decreases in the number of applicants from India and Nigeria
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Vice-chancellor urges ‘transparency’ on senior sector pay
Opacity is a feature of a university sector that has ‘lost its way’, according to Australia’s newest sector leader
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Open University vice-chancellor Tim Blackman to retire next year
Sociologist credited with stabilising the distance learning institution, but will leave it facing fresh financial challenges and still reeling from Jo Phoenix tribunal ruling
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Will 10-year budgets really lead to step change for UK research?
New Labour government believes decade-long budgets will lead to more industry investment in science and fewer precariously employed researchers, but not everyone is so convinced
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Years on edge, no cigar: the lot of foreign doctoral applicants
After waiting years for their visas, Australia-bound PhD candidates find that their university places have evaporated