Berlin universities poised to cancel Elsevier contracts
Some of Germany's most prestigious institutions are increasing pressure on the publisher to strike a new deal
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Market competition and mass participation ‘reduces diversity’
Expanding university enrolment across the world has resulted in universities ‘imitating each other’, says leading scholar
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Which universities are pushing the boundaries in life sciences?
Ability to access the cutting-edge technology needed for such research is one key factor behind the success of institutions featuring in the latest THE cluster analysis
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Illinois universities relieved as state gets budget at last
Financial uncertainty had forced institutions to cut jobs and courses
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Jisc Futures: data sharing is a key part of research – and not just for 'parasites'
Does the UK have the best structures in place to fund data-driven research? asks Steven Hill
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'Mafia' professors 'control Pakistan's corrupt research system'
Top academic claims universities have created 'factories' for junk science papers because of misguided funding system
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Google it! Students are ‘needy, ill-prepared and reliant on search engines’
Survey of university admissions staff paints an unflattering picture of today’s students, finds Jeremy Lewis
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Academics ‘often don’t trust other researchers’ data’
Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality
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Higher education ‘under siege’ in Venezuela
Universities in the country face widespread shortages, disruption and often violence
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Public versus private: university leadership in Japan
Futao Huang says that calls for Japan’s national universities to adopt more marketised leadership strategies have so far gone unheeded
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Would ‘white working-class studies’ help scholars fathom Trump?
Law professor says universities struggle to understand the majority of the population who do not have degrees
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What’s in a name? Quite a lot, when it comes to higher education reform
Should we be talking about Ofcoll and the ‘degree experience framework’? Diana Beech thinks so
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University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs
Senior academics at Teesside University put at risk of redundancy as summer break gets under way