Marriage advice lessons are hit with students, v-c insists
Undergraduates at Nigeria’s Covenant University enjoy their classes on how to have a happy marriage, says leader
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Students embrace block teaching but some staff still unconvinced
UK universities that have made the switch to different teaching model say it boosts student retention and recruitment but staff burnout is real risk
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‘Lower tolerance for failure’ on technology as finances dive
Financial constraints reducing appetite for risky experimentation but pressures can also help to ‘clarify minds’, say experts
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Canadian budget pledges major investment in research and students
After flat research funding drew complaints last year from universities, new plan warmly welcomed
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‘Illegal’ terms and conditions add to academic overwork crisis
Study finds scholarly autonomy used to justify breaches of 48-hour weekly working hours cap
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How to make the most of resistance in research subjects
Boston ethnographer argues that people often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles
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Congress pushes NIH to review reproducibility and ‘near misses’
As part of annual budget, lawmakers also call for focus on fraud, new funding models and peer review
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Labour leads among UK students, but three in 10 still undecided
Young voters ‘desperate for politicians to offer them more’, feeling that MPs don’t value their views
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UK graduates less likely to go straight into work after degree
Young people experiencing increasingly turbulent starts to their working lives, study finds
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Academic freedom should not be restricted to supposed core expertise
The broad approach taken by the OfS’ guidance on free speech will safeguard orthodoxy-challenging work, say Abhishek Saha and Ian Pace
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Universities’ ChatGPT misconduct focus ‘panicked students’
Institutions ‘got it wrong’ by putting all the attention on assessment when large language models first launched, say experts
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‘Break out of silos’ to share research technology and data
Tying state-of-the-art digital research infrastructure to particular research communities should give way to more equitable landscape, conference hears
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Slash wasteful IT spend and invest in academics instead – expert
Former government adviser says a modest cut in operating costs could allow for a doubling of the number of UK academics
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Create European institute for AI research, Brussels told
Artificial intelligence infrastructure currently dominated by corporations, scientific advisory group warns
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Hong Kong v-c cleared of misconduct fears long-term damage
HKU leader Xiang Zhang wants better protection for staff from ‘malicious’ allegations levelled anonymously