Office for Students: ‘fining council’ or facing impossible job?
V-c suggests English regulator, created a year ago, is ‘probably not long for this world’
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Website offers ‘complete PhD service’ for £36K
Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of ‘model writing assistance’
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UK research laboratories fear supply shortages after Brexit
UK universities and research institutes drawing up contingency plans for chaotic departure from European Union
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The week in higher education – 24 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Helen Pankhurst
The women’s rights activist on balancing fun and purpose and growing up as the great-granddaughter of the leader of the British suffragette movement
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Fijian higher education: a small system in a big hurry
The Pacific nation’s ambitions to harness its universities to drive economic growth face many challenges, says Roger Smyth
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Careers intelligence: how to support new research leaders
Four lab leaders explain how universities can help academics in the early days of running their first research group
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Campus blacklisting dates back to the blackshirts
The press may castigate ‘snowflake students’ over free speech, but resistance to far-right speakers has a long history, says Evan Smith
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How much disruption is open access worth?
Evidence of strong public demand for access to papers is scant. Might a sophisticated database of lay summaries be more valuable?
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Foreigners dominating growth in doctorates Down Under
Failure to recruit local PhDs will erode Australia’s skill base, report warns
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US expected to increase funding pressure on Confucius Institutes
Restrictions on use of federal money predicted to widen
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Two-year degrees will not threaten quality
England’s universities minister explains why the government is allowing universities to charge students more for condensed honours degrees