Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
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Australian enrolments stay on course despite funding freeze
Australian universities kept doing what they were already doing after government froze teaching funds
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What taxi drivers and traders teach us about tomorrow’s workplace
At last week’s Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit at Western University in London, Ontario, Royal Bank of Canada president David McKay made the case for more students to spend time in...
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China surges forward in renewable energy research
Increasing lead over US and Europe may raise questions over who controls future of green technology
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What’s in a name? Bias against female and minority applicants
Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment
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Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019: knighthood for UAL vice-chancellor
Three vice-chancellors get CBEs, as Anna Vignoles, Lee Elliot Major and Kevin Fong also among those honoured
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Stand firm against ‘free speech’ attacks, Lammy urges academics
Former universities minister renews attack on Oxford’s and Cambridge’s records on access
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Universities need firmer oversight role for student housing
Improving links between students, landlords and institutions can avoid the pitfalls of the private rental market, says Ahmed Mussa
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Skidmore warns against over-reliance on graduate earnings data
England’s universities minister says arts and humanities must not be marginalised in wake of Augar review
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Oxford to build 2,000 homes to tackle staff housing shortage
University chooses ‘private sector partner’ to deliver project
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Interdisciplinary research ‘struggles to bridge academic silos’
Study of grant funding in Australia suggests that collaboration across STEM and non-STEM divide is not the norm
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Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans
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Direct help for female students beyond the Indian elite
Projects for tackling gender equality in Indian higher education must be extended to the whole system, says Antara Sengupta
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Ethics education must accompany AI development, says MIT expert
Shigeru Miyagawa describes how artificial intelligence could transform teaching and assessment
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What are you reading? – 6 June 2019
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