Brexit, tuition fees and China: my predictions for academia in 2018
Simon Marginson looks ahead at what 2018 has in store for academia in the UK and further afield
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Increased public research funding ‘fails to bring more citations’
Increases in government research funding are absorbed by scientists at the ‘bottom of the hierarchy’, study suggests
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Education technology: what does 2018 have in store?
Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months
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New Austrian government to bring in university tuition fees
Concerns raised over moves to ‘mute’ students’ union and potential for far-Right figures on university boards
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New Year Honours 2018: damehood for Liverpool vice-chancellor
University of Strathclyde pollster John Curtice knighted in annual list
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Science courses and regional HE ‘hit hardest’ by Australia freeze
Certain disciplines and institutions likely to suffer from pegging of teaching funding
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The Office for Students: a new higher education regulator for England
UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis outlines how he hopes the HE sector will work with the new OfS
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Zuma’s fees giveaway is ‘unaffordable populism’ for South Africa
Promise of free higher education for majority of nation’s youth greeted with scepticism by university sector
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Open access in Germany: the best DEAL is no deal
An open access deal between German authors in journals published by Elsevier could be problematic, say Alex Holcombe and Björn Brembs
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University of Warwick scraps California branch campus plan
UK institution expresses concern about regulatory constraints and ‘global political challenges’
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New hub puts scientists on front line against disease outbreaks
Imperial College London centre will aim to speed up development of vaccines
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Two-year degrees and the biopolitics of higher education
Jana Bacevic takes a look through the history books to assess how the government’s recent announcement on two-year degrees could pan out
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Have English reforms led to universities fishing in same pool?
Latest data from Ucas suggest bulk of institutions are increasingly recruiting students with similar grade profiles