Are universities too cosy and cosseted?
Recent political interventions in university affairs are symptomatic of the perception that higher education institutions need a firm hand
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Letters – 22 November 2018
On meddling, merit and accountability The situation that Mark Steven describes in his opinion article “The political becomes personal when a grant is killed by a minister”, outlining how his personal...
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The week in higher education – 22 November 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Boris Paton
After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War
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Radical Irish gender plan ‘could be model for Europe’
Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets
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More transparency still needed on how fees are spent, says report
Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study
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DfE ‘bends over backwards’ to help England’s biggest for-profit
Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’
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Black academics ‘paid thousands of pounds less’ than white peers
Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds
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UK government sold student loans ‘for too little return’
MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments
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Leadership intelligence: should leaders still be active researchers?
Jack Grove asks whether those who lead academic departments and universities can still realistically find the time to be effective researchers
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James Stirling, 1953-2018
Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London
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Australia is not prepared for the fourth industrial revolution
Analysis of wage premiums from tertiary education suggests that the system struggles to deliver the changing skills that the economy demands, says Stephen Parker
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Let the coach take the strain
As winter’s tunnel looms, academics would do well not to retreat into lonely silos, says Alison Newby
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University leaders cannot be public intellectuals
A Twitter storm over a remark he made on diversity policy reminds Jeffrey Flier why he was so wary of speaking out while a Harvard dean