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Access tsar sets out plans to implement school-university focus
John Blake details planned changes to access agreements and defends focus on graduate outcomes in terms of ‘high-status jobs’
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Nobelists back petition for Swiss and UK Horizon association
Stick to Science campaign launches with more than 200 signatories covering industry, charities and academia
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White House science adviser Lander quits over bullying claims
White House tried to keep MIT-Harvard professor in top post after he apologised for belittling female colleagues
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Social scientists’ abandonment of book publishing laid bare
Losses perceived for holistic views as communications modes show humanists embracing data-heavy styles of the hard sciences
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‘Put shoulder to the wheel’ on school standards, says access tsar
John Blake rejects suggestions that it is not universities’ place to help close attainment gaps, in first speech in new role
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Talking leadership 12: Dwight McBride on fighting racism
The president of The New School in New York says universities are often underprepared for their first black leader
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The UK and Switzerland must be admitted to Horizon Europe
Time is running out to strike a deal that will cement the continent’s scientific strength, says Jan Palmowski
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Young University Rankings 2022: methodology
Using 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators, we provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons to rank global universities created since 1972
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Gender quotas for research grants ‘risk unintended consequences’
There is no simple answer to entrenched inequities in research funding, Australian agency finds
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$350 billion science legislation advances in US
Measure to expand NSF and retain foreign scholars with scientific expertise faces showdown over Senate’s even tougher approach to China
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Kwarteng ‘vetoed appointment of Oxford college head to lead ESRC’
Business secretary reportedly concerned by Jonathan Michie’s ‘left-wing’ associations
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Schmidt: take politics out of Australian research grant decisions
Vice-chancellor criticises ‘bipartisan support’ for rules enabling ministers to intervene in grant awards
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Poor German pushing international students towards dropping out
Eager recruiters, lenient testers and delusional students must all share the blame for dire retention, studies suggest
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Single funding bodies would heal UK’s HE-FE divide, says report
Paper says ‘too often colleges and universities have been pitted against each other’