International students often cannot go back home over the holidays and can feel lonely during the festive period, but Indonesian student Rika Safrina says that there are positives to be gleaned from...
Forum of top university leaders will share best practice on management strategies
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System urges researchers to consider boycotting academic publisher as negotiations go to the wire
Equity ‘synonymous’ with excellence, creating the pre-conditions for multi-dimensional learning, conference hears
Nada Kakabadse asks if tuition fees, degree standards or teaching methods are contributing to the mismatch in performance data
After US government officials escalate warnings against Chinese espionage, university presidents challenge idea that it’s a major campus activity
Universities beg government to cancel cut planned for mini-budget
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Job security a dream for most higher education staff as casualisation escalates
Take full advantage of having some time off this Christmas and dive into one of these books recommended by students from all over the world
One badly used metric doesn’t spoil the bunch The recent news story “Dutch double down on shift away from role of metrics in academic careers” (6 December) reports that in a shake-up of how academics...
If anyone should be leading the charge to tackle the world’s biggest issues, it is academics. But toxic debates are derailing them from their original purpose
Scholars give their recommendations for their best book of 2018 and the book they are most looking forward to reading in 2019