Record competition, lower salaries in ‘tough’ graduate job market
The Institute of Student Employers’ (ISE) annual survey records the highest number of applications per job since it first started collecting data in 1991
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Oxford’s chancellor has no power but can be a force for the sector’s good
If elected, I will use my vast experience of higher education to help Oxford lead the way through the big challenges facing UK HE, says David Willetts
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European research ‘needs new initiatives and more funding’
Group of experts advises European Union to embark on huge new investment in research
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Third medical school on horizon for Hong Kong
Island’s leaders unveil new policies to attract international talent and grow foreign student base
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Imran Khan out of Oxford chancellor race as candidates confirmed
Controversial Pakistani politician disqualified, but those making the cut include William Hague, Peter Mandelson, David Willetts and Elish Angiolini
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Can urban-related degrees keep up with Asia’s burgeoning cities?
Universities are expanding their offerings in urban design courses as megalopolises experience rapid growth
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Warwick pledges £700 million for campus’ new science precinct
Unprecedented investment is one of the largest UK university building projects in recent years
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New global alliance to ‘raise profile’ of humanities
Institutions in six continents plan fightback against creeping denigration of the social sciences
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The colonial, monolingual model of US HE must be rethought
Speaking Spanish is seen as a problem to be erased. But in Puerto Rico it is key to our success, say Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Héctor José Huyke
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Curiosity-driven research is ‘goose that lays the golden egg’
Lord Vallance says UK must not ‘rest on its laurels’, but signals that new Labour government will not interfere with direction of blue-sky science
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French researcher imprisoned in Russia under ‘foreign agent’ law
Laurent Vinatier, an adviser at the non-profit Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, sentenced to three years in prison
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Forgo salary rise, Australian National University begs staff
Waiving pay during Covid did not prevent redundancies, union warns members
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Suspended Buckingham v-c says allegations against him ‘baseless’
James Tooley vows to contest ‘serious’ claims as he faces inquiry at UK’s oldest private university
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What academia can learn from Edinburgh Cold War-era Soviet talks
Conversations between Scottish and Soviet researchers during the 1980s show academia’s potential to provide ideological safe space ‘outside of the state and its institutional needs’
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Academic pessimism on university funding as Japan goes to polls
Struggling universities unlikely to see greater support as warring parties focus on political reform