Amid mergers, does size matter for Australian universities?
While South Australian vice-chancellors see few downsides from an amalgamation, their western counterparts take a different view
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International students want to keep some lectures online – survey
Flexibility and ability to watch footage back thought to be behind preference for retaining Covid-era innovation
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‘Three in four’ Australians concerned about mounting student debt
Surveys suggest concern about student borrowing transcends age and political divides
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The UK’s university funding systems need a bold resetting
Subsidising domestic with international provision would not be tolerated in healthcare. How long before it unravels in HE, asks Mark Corver
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Queen’s University Belfast thrown out of Ucea over local pay deal
Institution says it stands by decision to offer staff wage rises in order to end marking boycott despite being ejected from national body
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UEA staff to strike over ‘needlessly cruel’ job cuts
Union threatens more walkouts unless management ‘work with us to avoid further job losses’
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AI text detectors ‘biased against non-native English speakers’
Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases
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Johnson: raise fee cap or risk universities ‘falling over’
Conservative former universities minister tables amendment to allow annual uprating, to ‘flush out’ Tory and Labour positions on ‘funding crisis’
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‘Nervous’ recruiters look beyond degrees amid marking delays
Flexibility of big firms not replicated in most heavily regulated professions
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Papers that fail to replicate ‘less likely to be cited’
Scholars suggest reproducibility testing might be helping to self-correct psychological research
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Transition to net zero ‘will cost UK universities £37 billion’
All institutions face multimillion-pound price tag for decarbonising supply chains, built environment and transport systems, says study
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CityU chief’s ‘sea change’ puts focus on rising academic stars
Weeks into the job, Freddy Boey promises to cut red tape, rethink teaching – and unsparingly weed out underperformers
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Class of 2023, I salute you
When faced with a real, full-bore crisis, this generation of supposed snowflakes just got on with it and coped better than I did, says Joe Moran
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US branch campuses in China face uncertain future
Geopolitical tensions between two superpowers force institutions to rethink collaborations forged in friendlier times