The week in higher education – 16 March 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Assessment damages everyone involved. I’m giving all my students As
Grading fills students with anxiety and academics with guilt. It is the enemy of real education. Time for a rebellion, says Andy Farnell
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University investment zones ‘step in the right direction’
Jeremy Hunt uses spring budget aiming to harness potential of R&D to boost economic growth
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UCU members return to picket lines ‘determined’
Union begins six days of action across UK universities after controversial decision to pause walkouts
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Biden begins ‘secret shopper’ undercover crackdown on colleges
Agents posing as students will look for a wide range of legal violations, with for-profit sector especially alarmed
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Canadian leader steps aside over native claims
Memorial University president apologises and takes paid break after questions on strength of her claims of indigenous ancestry
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Quality questions as publisher’s growth challenges big players
Analysis shows Swiss publisher MDPI set up almost 56,000 special issues with a closing date in 2023
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Hundreds of science PhDs face axe as doctoral centres shuttered
Postgraduate training likely to be concentrated in larger universities as EPSRC and Wellcome make cuts
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Review panel ties casualisation to international student growth
Fluctuating foreign fee flows helped fuel Australian sector’s addiction to sessional staff
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Stop telling me I’ll get a permanent job eventually. I know I probably won’t
Telling precariously employed literature scholars to just hang in there doesn’t cut it in a job market as bad as today’s, says Chris Townsend
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Losing your fixed-term post never gets any easier
Belated moves to mitigate precarity are welcome but may come too late for one scholar exhausted by insecurity
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Universities’ budgets being cut to bare minimum, warns v-c
Institutions ‘can no longer afford’ cross-subsidy for research, says Jenny Higham, leader of UUK review of sector funding
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Johnson: OfS hasn’t stopped universities ‘operating like cartel’
Architect of English regulator also criticises universities for ‘sniping’ at it
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Witch-hunts cripple science, warns scholar arrested under Trump
A year after his ordeal, Chinese American semiconductor specialist Gang Chen reflects on how a 12-month government investigation changed his life and work