Ministers vetoed student champions from Office for Students board
Three student candidates deemed 'appointable' to regulator's board were overlooked in favour of engineering undergraduate
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MENA Universities Summit 2018 to take place in Saudi Arabia
Times Higher Education’s third summit in the region will reveal the best universities in the Arab world
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Ditch the old hierarchies – further and higher education belong together
Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both
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Is the drive for efficiency setting researchers up for a fall?
Data from the THE World University Rankings suggest Western nations such as the UK are making good use of limited resources, but what are the side effects?
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Australia fears decline in Chinese students over ‘treason’ laws
Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome
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18 practical steps to help universities better serve Generation Z
Mary Visser asks if universities are delivering for people born in the late 1990s
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Academic sisterhood: unless I ask the questions, how am I to know?
Criticism of academic sisterhood survey gets to the crux of the matter that the resulting article will explore, says Holly Else
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Students defend the future of facts on Wikipedia
As part of a US initiative, undergraduates are given assignments to create articles, helping to develop critical appraisal skills
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UK-France laboratory enables post-Brexit research funding access
Mathematicians at Imperial College London will have access to French research grants through new collaboration
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The desire to be flawless: helping students cope with perfectionism
Thomas Curran looks at what lecturers can do to help when faced with students presenting perfectionistic tendencies
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Chile’s rightward shift raises doubts over free tuition scheme
Privately run vocational courses likely to be big beneficiaries of Gratuidad, which supports poorer students
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University debt: a necessary evil?
With students paying higher fees and expecting better facilities, UK universities must find sustainable ways to increase capital expenditure, says Philip Stephenson
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Ageing academic workforce poses challenges for Japan and Taiwan
University staff in both sectors also report deteriorating workplace conditions
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Researcher hides marriage proposal in paper on refrigerators
‘Romance is not dead, it's just behind a paywall’