UK’s elite universities ‘still have social justice problem’
Education committee chair Rob Halfon says ‘sanctions’ should be applied where numbers of disadvantaged students stall or decline
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Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis?
NAS calls for US lawmakers to bring change also brings warning that crisis talk may ultimately ‘stifle frontier discoveries’
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Required reading: ‘Ensure students have the money to live’
A National Union of Students’ report offers recommendations that could help eliminate the ‘poverty premium’ suffered by working-class students
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Contract cheating ‘ripe to explode’
Universities must be vigilant in age of social media and sneaky technology, researchers warn
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NUS calls for ‘minimum living income’ for post-16 students
Poverty Commission finds ‘clear link’ between social class and poverty in English tertiary education
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UK’s share of EU research funding drops after Brexit vote
Data is latest evidence uncertainty caused by the referendum result has cost British academics
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The experiences of women of colour can challenge academia’s status quo
After publishing a collection of narratives from women of colour in academia, Deborah Gabriel has seen how personal experiences of whiteness can make progress towards racial equality
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Australian tertiary participation to fall, thinktank warns
A dwindling share of post-school students could leave the country’s workforce short of know-how
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‘Unethical not to’ submit Brexit interviews to MPs, says academic
Emma Briant defends actions over exchanges with key figures from Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica parent
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Academic dialogue reshaped by WhatsApp era
University teachers are wrestling with the challenge of facilitating a new mode of online peer-to-peer learning, says Peter Kahn
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PJ Thum’s treatment will dampen Singaporean academics’ willingness to speak out
Politicians’ disparagement of historian’s research signals that alternative interpretations of the city state’s past will not be tolerated, says Linda Lim
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Expert panel could be ‘game changer’ in UK pensions dispute
Analysts are optimistic that the expert panel convened to reassess the USS deficit could deliver significant change, although others are less convinced
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The least and most popular undergraduate courses in the UK
Female students were more likely to select medical-related subjects, while male students favoured business degrees, according to data from Hesa
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From India to the UK: a checklist for international students
Arya Sharma presents a checklist of things you should think about before coming to study in the UK as an international student