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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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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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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What are students in the United States most satisfied with at their university?
Students in the United States told us what aspects of university life they were happiest with and which disappointed them
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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
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DfE keeps EU student paper secret ‘to avoid affecting’ trade talks
Refusal to release report on post-Brexit demand raises question of whether fee and loan arrangements will feature in UK-EU trade talks
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Departing professor hits out at ‘heavy-handed’ email termination
Historian says he has been unable access notes and part-written books, but Swansea says it has been providing files
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Time to re-examine the Humboldtian model, says Schmidt
Funding designed around a ‘false premise’ that every university is research-intensive, says Nobel laureate