Can universities do more to tackle inequality in admissions?
If institutions are serious about widening participation, they must somehow strike a balance between social engineering and social mobility
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Letters – 29 November 2018
Protect students by cutting UK ties with UAE Student exchanges can be valuable. But in the case of Matthew Hedges, the Durham University PhD student who was jailed for spying in the United Arab...
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Historically black colleges ahead on US graduate career readiness
Annual NSSE survey of 400,000 US students finds gap between high confidence in job preparation and weaker assessment of skills
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Interview with Doreen Foster
The Warwick Arts Centre director talks about how a school led by Britain’s first black headteacher and her new home in a diverse Coventry suburb have both inspired her
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Olin Robison, 1936-2018
Tributes paid to pastor, foreign policy expert and college president
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Fee hike central to France’s international recruitment drive
Chinese learners think fees of a couple of hundred euros are ‘too good to be true’ and a sign of poor quality, experts say
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Email raises questions over autonomy of foreign students review
Senior civil servant said Migration Advisory Committee report ‘looks good’ weeks prior to publication of document that backed Theresa May’s stance
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MEPs fail to allay concern over UK exclusion from ERC post-Brexit
Key committee agrees that associate members of Horizon Europe ‘may be excluded’ from prestigious funding scheme
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The week in higher education – 29 November 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Two-thirds of applicants with unconditional offers missed grades
Ucas analysis also reveals that such offer-making is even more widespread when ‘conditional unconditional’ offers are included
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Even at university, speech can never be entirely free
Judgement is hard, but limits are appropriate if they ensure the quality of academic engagement with complex, competing ideas, says Sandro Galea
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Research intelligence: Nature editor on how to pitch a paper
Whether you approach an editor in person, over email or on the phone, make sure to tap into their passion for the subject, writes Nature’s Magdalena Skipper
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Doctoral study still lacks a global prescription
PhDs are becoming more programmatic in many countries, but the German one-on-one model retains considerable influence, says Glen Jones
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Ireland’s small steps for womankind are unlikely to trigger a giant leap
Female-only professorships will speed progress to gender equality in the academy, but the pushback shows how far there still is to go, says Clare Kelly