What is the Chinese government doing to improve education?
With millions of young people needing skills for a modern economy, the country is seeking to make bespoke reforms to overhaul its rote-based education system, says David Smith
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UK refuses to offer pledge on post-Brexit research links with EU
MPs on Science and Technology Committee not satisfied with government response to Brexit report
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Next executive chair of UK’s EPSRC appointed
Lynn Gladden, Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge, to lead research council
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Social responsibility ‘can’t be forced’ on academics
Thailand’s education minister tells conference that a consensus is better for ensuring universities help local communities
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Stigma over higher education options ‘holds Syrian refugees back’
Session on how best to support refugees from Syria and elsewhere hears evidence that more vocational options are needed
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Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2018
Tributes paid to a university leader who ‘always believed firmly in what women could do’
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UK universities and students back clearer guidance on free speech
Minister plans to simplify ‘dizzying variety’ of rules on freedom of expression
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Sajid Javid: could he reshape UK’s overseas student regime?
MAC report on impact of international students will be ‘hard to ignore’ for new home secretary
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Australian National University eyes role in new space agency
Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget
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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Csiszar
Many issues that vex scholarly publishing today were there at the start, says Geoffrey Cantor
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The week in higher education – 3 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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UK and Europe ‘must join forces’ on AI research despite Brexit
UK expertise pulls far ahead of Europe in terms of output, but collaboration will be vital if sectors are to remain competitive with US and Asia, experts say
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Anonymous student feedback not so anonymous, lecturer warns
Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic
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Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey through Our Cosmic Family Tree, by Jillian Scudder
Via clear, vivid storytelling, Simon Mitton takes an engaging learning journey from Mother Earth out to the farthest galaxies
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What are you reading? – 3 May 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers