Professor: End ‘myth’ of marginalised early career researcher
Staff who enter higher education in mid-career without a PhD are academia’s ‘proletariat’, not ‘privileged’ young researchers, says paper
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Greek scholars hope new law ends student anarchy on campuses
Legislation will enable police presence on campuses after years of academics being assaulted, held hostage and blocked from entering buildings
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V-cs fear logistical headache of staggered return to campuses
Leaders say they are happy to support safe return of students, but worry about timing and convincing staff
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If the OfS doesn’t appear to take online abuse seriously, who will?
Given the year we've just had, we might expect some acknowledgment of the need to address student welfare online, say Andy Phippen and Emma Bond
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New free speech rules target English universities
University and College Union accuses ministers of ‘fighting phantom threats’
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After the insurrection, critical thinking needs careful teaching
Academics must emphasise that thinking critically does not mean dismissing everything as biased, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren
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Bureaucratic oversight helped seal language courses’ fate
Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses
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Books interview: Alicia Walker
The sociology professor tells Matthew Reisz about her rural childhood, satisfying a hunger for the wider world through reading, and her (scholarly) interest in unfaithful men
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Foreign scholars ‘will avoid Pacific universities’ after Fiji row
Deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is latest crisis to afflict a Western administrator in region
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English minister’s academic freedom broadside ‘confects conflict’
Gavin Williamson’s call for OfS to ‘support individual academics’ in curriculum rows could ‘set up wall with university leadership’
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Skidmore hopes to push UK government to outlaw essay mills
Former universities minister calls on Department for Education to support private member’s bill outlawing contract cheating
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Ensemble efforts can, and should, replace the lone lecturer
In virtually all our endeavours in the academy, collaboration is valued – so why is the classroom an exception, ask Kwong Nui Sim and Michael Cowling
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Internationalisation doesn’t appear to be very international
The most successful scholars are those who reach out ‘globally’ by publishing in English. But this narrow ‘internationalisation’ should be challenged, says Hanne Tange
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Commercial return on investment should count in UK R&D funding
Evidence shows that universities outside the golden triangle are among the best at creating successful companies, says Brian McCaul
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Covid ‘threat’ to Australian postgraduate ranks
Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say