Golden triangle research ‘no more golden than rest of UK’
Research quality more evenly spread than funding and ‘toxic cultural bias’ could be behind disparities, says geographical analysis for Hepi
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Vice-chancellors fear UK sector is hurtling into financial crisis
Almost no leaders in THE survey expect government to support a university in serious trouble, as domestic and international funding woes leave one v-c fearing ministers ‘want to drive us out of...
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The week in higher education – 18 January 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Tribunal rebuke highlights Australian regulatory double standards
Good for the goose but not the gander, after college’s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding
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NAO: franchised HE fraud ‘potentially linked to organised crime’
University courses franchised to colleges accounted for 53 per cent of £4.1 million of fraud detected by SLC last year, says public spending watchdog
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Largest fall in post-92 undergraduate recruitment for a decade
Analysis of Ucas figures reveals which universities saw the largest falls in undergraduate recruitment
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Are academia and motherhood incompatible?
While UK universities are starting to address the challenges faced by new mothers, combining parenthood and academia remains a difficult task. Five writers give their experience of what institutions...
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Interview with Mesias Alfeus
The senior lecturer in financial risk management discusses his academic career around the world, his admiration for Galileo and how a traditional game inspired his love of mathematics
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It is time for open access to move on from institutional repositories
The British Library cyber-attack underlines that HE and research libraries’ technologies and policies put us at too much risk, says Fiona Greig
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Can internationalisation save South Korea’s emptying universities?
As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola...
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Germany urges ‘realpolitik’ attitude to Chinese collaborations
German Academic Exchange Service advocates continued engagement, but on universities’ own terms
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Russian academic quits Estonian university after espionage arrest
Viacheslav Morozov of the University of Tartu was detained earlier this month
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First joint UK-Australian branch campus to open in Indonesia
Collaboration between Lancaster and Deakin universities aims to welcome first students in September
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How should plagiarism allegations against presidents be handled?
The departure of Claudine Gay from Harvard was said to be politically motivated but most other leaders have also fallen on their swords when their scholarship is questioned
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Oxford v-c’s course seeks to bridge science-humanities ‘divide’
Professors from different disciplines will join forces to tackle big societal questions