Social responsibility means recruiting more technicians locally
Universities offer many rewarding technical careers – but local populations are often oblivious of them, says Mike Hughes
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Orbán ‘may back referendum’ on Fudan’s Budapest campus
Apparent backtracking comes after protests on streets of Hungarian capital
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How to Think, by John Paul Minda
Martin Cohen finds many insights and a dose of logic in a book about brain science that aims to help us think better
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A portal to the promised land
The UK government needs to back up its commitment to investing in ‘science superpower’ status with a focus on the entire funding ecosystem
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Australian state proposes ‘mid-year’ return for overseas students
New South Wales plan, which requires federal approval, would allow for 250 arrivals a fortnight
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Is there a catch to the UK’s £22 billion science spending pledge?
Recent cuts and scares have cast doubt on ministers’ commitment to harnessing science in pursuit of a levelled-up, post-Brexit innovation economy. Questions also remain about how funding should be...
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Be there or be square: the strange art of lecturing
A PowerPoint marathon or a ‘captured’ lecture will always be a pale imitation of a live experience, in which an expert practitioner taps into ‘the dangerous energy of all those watching eyes’, says...
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Interview with Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record
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Vartan Gregorian, 1934-2021
Tributes paid to Brown University and Carnegie Corporation president: ‘a man of the world who inspired the world’
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‘Discretion’ should have no place in determining degree classifications
Universities need to establish clear and transparent criteria for assessing those with borderline results, argues Andy Grayson
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Covid: working mums hit hard as v-cs demanded ‘business as usual’
Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses
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Lowering English loan repayment threshold ‘would save £4 billion’
Changing loan terms ‘might not be popular’ and would cost average graduate £10,000 but could be better than cutting places or funding, says Hepi paper
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The week in higher education – 10 June 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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10 June 2021 digital edition
To the stratosphere: will the UK hit its £22 billion research funding target?
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Williamson intervention on Oxford royal portrait ‘authoritarian’
Union says education’s secretary’s criticism of students is ‘dangerous’, as Magdalen president defends ‘democratic decision-making’ that led to removal