Promoting a sense of visceral safety would get the best out of academics
Academia is inherently competitive but we can reduce the debilitating sense of constant threat, say Catelijne Coopmans and Catherine Montgomery
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OUP apologises two decades after book sparked violent protests
Publisher acknowledges ‘unverified statements’ in controversial text by American academic that led to long-running legal battles
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Monthly payments switch mooted as part of student loans shake-up
MP seeks reform to ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ system amid cost-of-living concerns
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Hike Erasmus+ budget by €20 billion to boost inclusion, EU told
Current proposals would limit access to studying abroad and prevent creation of new scholarships in priority fields, European universities have warned
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Tracking student engagement data ‘complex and contested’
Study warns against heavy reliance on metrics such as logins and page views to judge students’ performance
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‘Profound political change’ needed to revive Venezuelan science
Collapse of higher education system under Maduro unlikely to be reversed without a complete change in leadership, warn experts
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Universities offer lifetime career support in ‘tough’ UK economy
Graduate employability increasingly seen as ‘university-wide priority’ involving academics and researchers as well as dedicated careers services
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World University Rankings by Subject 2026: methodology
How we rank universities across 11 separate subject areas
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Is this tiny engineering institute really the future of HE?
New provider has been lauded by politicians and the media alike due to its different approach that seeks to ‘build a new type of university for a new type of undergraduate’. But what lessons can it...
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Harvard’s slashing of PhD numbers is long overdue
Trump-imposed economic pressures should prompt us to confront the mismatch between PhD admissions and academic jobs, says Joshua Snider
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Japan’s women-only universities divided over trans admissions
Some institutions revisit gender-related policies against backdrop of legal and political developments