Interview with Alan Davison
Musicologist waxes lyrical on homeschooling, white fragility and the narrowing of intellectual enquiry
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A new leadership breed is refocusing UK universities on local need
Diversifying income stream also makes institutions less exposed to possible government cuts, say Ian Matthias and Mike Boxall
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9 December 2021 digital edition
Testaments and revelations: do narrative CVs refresh research or just muddle the plot?
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Do narrative CVs tell the right story?
A push to end the habit of assessing researchers by their publication metrics is gaining momentum. But are journal impact factors really as meaningless as is claimed? And will requiring scientists to...
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Go bush and we’ll wipe your student debt, Canberra tells medics
New scheme unveiled six years after its underperforming predecessor was scrapped
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‘Student experience’ roles speed expansion of professional ranks
Workforce report co-authored by Baroness Wolf also finds that number of teaching-only staff in UK grew by 80 per cent in 12-year period
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Chinese students missing campus experience opt for hotels instead
Learners enrolled with Western universities gather in China’s tourism hotspots
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Australia mulls post-study work visas for offshore graduates
Experts welcome discussion but warn of unintended consequences from potential escalation of global recruitment race
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Failure isn’t the only teacher. Journals must overcome negativity bias
Studying institutional success stories is socially useful and has nothing to do with selling out, say Matthew Flinders and Paul ’t Hart
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Third of cancer researchers fail to help reproducibility project
NIH vows shifts after years-long assessment finds top-cited scientists rarely share data and measure up poorly when they do
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Australia to finance new microcredentials from old funding
Government promises response to review’s other recommendations ‘in due course’
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‘Big five’ losing monopoly on English-language degree courses
Almost one in five English-medium degrees now taught outside Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and US
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Trust-based bookkeeping could prompt timid partnering
Commission haste in Horizon lump sum rollout could pour cold water on innovative consortia, groups warn
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Probation period for PhD supervisors ‘could prevent exploitation’
Students should be able to try out mentors before committing to a years-long relationship, researchers say
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Are there too many arts graduates? That is the wrong question
Scrutiny of graduate outcomes is appropriate but the issue is much more complex than arts v science, says Anna Vignoles