UUK heads: England’s OfS fails to show devolved nations ‘respect’
Senior figures are angry over regulator’s approach and fear it could put UK-wide sector ‘in danger’, letters seen by Times Higher Education reveal
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Performing arts students ‘scared to report abuse’
Survey reveals widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and bullying in UK specialist institutions
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Australia set to overtake UK in global student race
Research shows that Australia’s overseas student numbers have surged while Brexit will ‘compound the decline’ in UK’s global position
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The week in higher education – 19 July 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Postgraduates need more support when deciding where to study
Postgraduate enrolments in the UK are growing, but a Ucas study shows that almost a quarter of current postgrads aren’t satisfied with the university they chose, Helen Thorne says
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There is no free speech crisis at UK universities
Free and open debate is alive and well on UK campuses, but new guidance on how universities can best encourage and protect free speech is welcome, says Peter Tatchell
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McMaster wins second Global Teaching Excellence Award
Canadian university impresses judges with ‘strength of its vision and plan’ for teaching quality
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Horizon Europe must be broadened
The EU’s proposal for its next research and innovation funding framework focuses too narrowly on technology, say Gabi Lombardo and Jon Deer
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Academic monopolies are nothing to be proud of
Neoliberalism is many academics’ bête noire, but it is also a litmus test of their democratic sensibilities, says Steve Fuller
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Preparation for overseas study is killing Chinese students’ scholarly aptitude
Years of slogging through English-language crushes Chinese students' love of learning before they even get to an overseas university, says Bob Fonow
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Joint legal action is the only way to close the gender pay gap
Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar
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Millennials: the age of entitlement
While Vieno Vehko empathises with millennials’ burden of tuition debt, she also finds it hard to respect a group that neither reads critically nor takes responsibility for its learning
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard
Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey
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The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t, by Eugenia Cheng
If you want to learn to argue better, don’t ditch emotion, argues Tony Mann
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What are you reading? – 19 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers