NIH raises postdoctoral salaries, but below target
Top US funding agency manages record increase in key programme for younger scientists, and sees gains in overall equity, while absorbing net cut in its annual budget
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Leeds bans ‘unfairly disparaging’ social media posts
University policy criticised for potential chilling effect, just as institutions come under renewed pressure to promote free speech
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Cautious experiment with AI in student counselling gets under way
US university tests use of technology in training mental health advisers, but experts foresee – and fear – wider application
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Australian student visa changes undermine campus diversity push
Latest changes encourage more recruitment from China for universities that already have the market cornered
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Franchising: close ‘back door’ for student loan fraud, MPs urge
Committee urges new transparency data, strengthened oversight and guidance on how big a cut of tuition fee universities should take
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Talking leadership: SKKU’s Ji-Beom Yoo on allowing failure
As overhaul presses staff and students to broaden horizons, president discusses handling faculty pushback, maintaining a vital Samsung partnership and dealing with disgruntled alumni
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International students make me feel like an academic again
Overseas students’ respect for learning helps restore some of the authority that consumerism has stripped from UK academics, says Rania Hafez
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‘Set clear boundaries’ for healthy industry-academia partnerships
Companies must understand that it is not the job of a university to conduct commercial product development, summit hears
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‘Weak’ funding blamed as Europe falls behind on innovation
European Innovation Council president says member states are struggling to turn good science into ‘game-changing innovations’
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DSA outsourcing ‘put targets before disabled applicants’
MPs hear concerns about quality of assessment process under new suppliers Capita and Study Tech
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Graduate debt relief expected in Australian budget
Student loans among the ‘areas where we need to do much better with the younger generation’, prime minister concedes
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Columbia ends in-person classes as protests spread across US
University’s president in tough situation, with lawmakers escalating tensions, students angered by quick use of police force, and encampments elsewhere drawing similar responses
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Universities slow to embrace China’s Hainan branch campus vision
Overseas institutions opt for partnerships with local counterparts rather than going it alone, despite regulatory incentives
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How men get away with dodging ‘academic housework’
Women expected to be ‘organisational team-players’ while male colleagues ‘allowed to pursue their individual career interests’
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University staff more likely to be LGB+ than general population
Study says fears of under-representation are ‘unfounded’ and warns affirmative action could therefore be ‘unlawful’