UKRI’s university funding to be ‘less tactical, more strategic’
New chief executive of UK Research and Innovation sets out how relationship with universities could change
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Belief in marketised HE went too far, says Tory policy tsar
Taxpayer and students losing out as a result of failure to tackle ‘low-quality’ higher education, according to Neil O’Brien
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Schooling disparity ‘threat to Universities Accord equity goals’
Policymakers need to understand inequity at primary and secondary level – and between genders – to make tertiary education genuinely inclusive, concludes study
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Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises
Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch
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Student turns up at university only to find course cancelled
Sudden cancellation ‘devastating’ as financial pressures force universities across the country to close programmes
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Can work placements solve ‘question mark’ over higher education?
Two universities that have high shares of students taking internships explain how they prioritise sustainability while improving graduate employability
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Hillbilly energy: from middle-school dropout to academic tenure
Georgiann Davis’ gripping account of growing up intersex and obese in a dysfunctional provincial family is a ‘queer’ response to J. D. Vance’s celebrated Hillbilly Elegy. But will the Trump...
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Let students fail
Perhaps the scrapping of the 50 per cent participation target will remind everyone that failing at university is not failing in life, says an academic
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Student employability ‘main priority’ for university boards
Both internal and external board members agree on priorities for institutions, countering view that outsiders favour different approach
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Compact shows ‘empowered’ Trump plans to ‘divide and conquer’
Promise of preferential treatment in return for fee freeze and student cap latest salvo in president’s ‘ideological’ battle to reshape HE
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NUS orders staff back to campus five days a week
National University of Singapore scraps policy that allowed one work from home day because of the ‘value of in-person interactions’
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Protecting the integrity of university rankings
Addressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty
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Transnational education deals a ‘threat to the academy’
Universities have turned to offshore educational pacts amid a global crackdown on international students, but critics say they require conditions that would never be tolerated at home