University of Washington cancels classes over coronavirus
In-person tuition put on hold for next three weeks across all campuses
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Oxford condemns students’ ‘no-platforming’ of Amber Rudd
Institution says it will take steps to ensure this does not happen in the future, after former home secretary was disinvited at the last minute
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Bushfire research opportunities ‘vanishing’ without funding
Frustration as Australian Research Council takes six months to judge applications to support urgent impact assessments
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Female leadership in top universities advances for first time since 2017
Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows number of women leading highest-ranking institutions has risen slightly
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International Women’s Day: top universities led by women
Only 39 of the top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings are run by women
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Is it time for UK universities to exit teacher training?
The UK government's increasingly proscriptive policies on teacher education could start encroaching on universities’ autonomy, say Viv Ellis and Keith Turvey
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Art historian Griselda Pollock ‘filling up the half-empty museum’
The Holberg prizewinner describes how she forged a new discipline in response to the ‘theoretically thin’ and ‘historically unimaginative’ art history she was trained in
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Low US youth voting raises concern for free-college push
Emerging consensus on tackling costs may wither if students shun elections, some fear
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Psychopathic behaviour is a hidden problem in higher education
Fear of reprimand is stopping researchers from looking into why workplace bullying is reported more in higher education than in other sectors, say Daniel W. Lund and Nick Forster
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Anger over Massey’s plan to switch teaching locations
Science students may be required to move about 250 miles from current Auckland campus as university attempts to mitigate a contribution shortfall
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What are you reading? – 5 March 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Mission modifications
The government may be putting a new emphasis on universities and the role of research, but the attention may also bring new demands for delivery
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The Price of Football, by Kieran Maguire
Stephen Mumford puts his head to the business factors and fantasy finances at the heart of the beautiful game
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Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading, by Leona Toker
Bryan Cheyette welcomes a comparative study of those persecuted under Stalin and Hitler despite its gaps
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Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium, by Julie Wheelwright
Book of the week: Emma Rees salutes a wide-ranging study of women who passed as men or found other means to serve in combat