Laurie Taylor – 18 January 2018
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New year, new universities minister
Cabinet reshuffle offers universities the chance of a relationship reset before they are likely caught in the first swell of a global wave of funding reviews
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We are blind to the specks in our own eyes
Jonathan Rosenhead points out the double standard involved when a government responsible for the counter-terrorism Prevent strategy and apparently for tacitly supporting the closing-down of...
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Common ground
I am flattered to be the target of a letter from Roger Brown (again). But he exaggerates the differences between us. For example, we share a concern about the dangers of excessive homogeneity in...
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Letter: shrinking pensions could lead to recruitment disaster
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
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Hundreds of hate speakers allowed on campuses, claims ex-OIA head
Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students
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The joys of academic moonlighting
Matthew Reisz meets the scholars for whom one discipline is not enough
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£1.1 million for new centre tackling decline of technicians
Initiative is part of bid to tackle impending shortage of 700,000 university technicians expected in UK by 2020
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Australian graduates increasingly settle for part-time jobs
Almost two-fifths of employed university leavers were working part-time in 2017
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Chilean university closure leaves students in lurch
Ibero-American University of Science and Technology closed after an investigation found the institution to have debts of about 4 billion pesos
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Luxembourg increases higher education funding by 25 per cent
More than half of new budget will go to the University of Luxembourg
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Arrest fears blamed as Hong Kong student elections uncontested
Hotbed of student protest may struggle in future because of lack of interest in committee roles