UK universities ‘paid big publishers £1 billion’ in past decade
Huge bill for journal access revealed as UK institutions begin strategy talks over Elsevier renewal deal
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Harry Garuba, 1958-2020
Tributes paid to ‘African icon’ who drove forward decolonisation at Cape Town
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Interview with Friederike Otto
The weather attribution pioneer explains how her field has transformed what researchers can say about climate change – and what's she’s learned about communicating results
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Leadership intelligence: how to ensure good governance
Governing bodies play an important role in universities, but how can institutions ensure they are functioning at full capacity?
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‘Laddish behaviour’ forces university to abolish lectures
Academics report being heckled, undermined and interrupted in book that questions association of loutish conduct exclusively with alcohol and sports teams
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Hungary ‘manipulating history’ with national origins institute
Research centre meant to support ‘politically useful ideas’ such as Orbán’s claim of Turkic ancestry for nation as government pivots away from EU, scholars claim
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Want students to understand different cultures? Try heavy metal
Academic argues that learning about subcultures through music can be more useful than studying abroad
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12 March 2020 digital edition
Code blue: Will mass online teaching outlive the coronavirus?
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Pirate universities have stolen lecturers’ performers’ rights
Universities are wrong to assume that they are entitled to use recordings of lecturers however they please, says Robert Cluley
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The week in higher education – 12 March 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Lecturers need to stop trying to micromanage their students’ lives
Douglas Dowland considers the damage inflicted by the control freaks of the academy – and some of the ways he has found to keep his own inner control freak in line
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Coronavirus: more European countries shutter university systems
Poland, Hungary and Ukraine follow Italy and Greece in ordering temporary closures
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Budget 2020: UK research spending to hit £22 billion by 2024-25
Chancellor goes beyond Tory manifesto pledges and signals immediate £400 million boost for 2020-21
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Shift to online education spreads in US, covering entire states
Orders to vacate campuses raise fears for low-income and international students as well as resigned acceptance