Who put the cult in faculty?
Academics’ battles with impostor syndrome reflect the difficulty of becoming truly accepted into the cult of academia, says Michael Marinetto
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Ministers urged to back, not bash, English northern universities
‘MIT of the North’ idea seen as ignoring imbalances in research funding that undermine regions
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A month to Brexit: how are campuses placed to weather the storm?
Latest data on income, staff and research funding show the key challenges facing UK higher education in the coming years
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Institutions must push harder to open science
Making participant-derived data available is not a panacea but, with careful support and management, it can improve reproducibility, says Jonathan Grigg
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Physicist wins employment tribunal over Oxford retirement rule
Judgment likely to reignite the battle over the fixed departure ages at the university and elsewhere
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Researcher behind ‘gene-edited babies’ given prison sentence
Chinese biophysicist jailed for three years for experiment that led to live births of three genetically altered children
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US universities try to drive change in underperforming schools
Higher education motivated by goal of more diverse lists of qualified applicants
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‘Little evidence’ for claim universities are ‘left-wing bastions’
Study of European Social Survey data finds academics more left-leaning than almost any other professional group, but show ‘no greater homogeneity’ in beliefs
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Abertay ‘pauses’ shorter degrees as staff complain of ‘pressure’
Scottish university piloted accelerated degrees, but challenges highlighted in review raises broader questions over such courses
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Is student politics out of control in Bangladesh?
The apparently political murder of an undergraduate at a top Bangladeshi university by other students has stunned a nation, writes Nahid Neazy
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Why and how to debate climate change
Students need to develop their own well-informed positions on the difficult questions raised by climate change without being told what to think, says Mike Hulme
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International observatory targets predatory publishers
Coalition of publishers, scholars and funders believes that combating confusion on issue is the first step to finding a solution
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‘Rude’ peer reviews inflict most damage on women and minorities
Study says comments such as ‘she should be in the kitchen, not writing papers’ affect the careers of under-represented groups
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Campus cultural centres are vital to diversity and inclusion missions
Students of colour need safe spaces to find support and encouragement from people who look like them, says Elizabeth Ajagbe