Miguel Civil, 1926-2019
Tributes paid to a scholar who revolutionised study of the world’s earliest known written language
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Many university staff back prosecuting students over essay mills
THE survey finds support among academics for harsher punishments for students, following paper that reports ‘surprising’ level of support for criminalising users of contract cheating services
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Appointments – 7 March 2019
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Students say failing English universities must be rescued
Hepi survey finds student opinion is in direct opposition to government and regulator policy
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V-c pay: which leaders provide the most bang for buck?
A comparison of pay data with the THE rankings offers insights on which leaders provide the best value for money
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Academia’s grey markets offer rich pickings for the untenured
Marketisation, precarity and global competition have combined to create a vast market for academic ghostwriting, says an anonymous scholar
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France’s spectacle of consultation won’t yield meaningful change
Universities’ vocal opposition to government plans for vastly increased international fees has yielded only minor concessions, says Juliette Torabian
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Private tutoring needs remedial discipline
This growing but still unacknowledged phenomenon in higher education is badly in need of ethical oversight, says an anonymous academic
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The agony of microaggression and discrimination knocked me out
A student’s mysterious accusation of racism saw P. K. Newby removed from her course – and another woman lost from the leaky pipeline
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Interview with Amer Zahr
The Palestinian law professor talks about the overlap with his other job: as a stand-up comedian travelling the world talking about the Arab American experience
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What universities can do to help pregnant PhD students
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Selina Sutton explains what universities are doing wrong (and right) when supporting PhD candidates during pregnancy and beyond
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Chicago president: Trump’s free speech order would be a ‘grave error’
Robert Zimmer explains why the US president’s threat to deny federal funds to colleges that fail to protect free speech is a bad idea
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IFS’ English loans report ‘builds pressure to cut tuition fees’
Treasury officials will find it harder to ignore the deficit pressures caused by subsidising lower-earning creative arts students after analysis, researcher argues