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Calls for longer PhD scholarships as teaching loads creep up
Doctoral candidates offered hybrid ‘stipend and salary’ studentships with significant teaching hours will struggle to balance competing pressures, union fears
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Scottish ministers consider pre-election university funding boost
Prospect of additional support being announced in last budget before polling day as review into higher education funding gets under way
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Russell Group v-c salaries rise as 7,000 job losses confirmed
Leaders of research-intensive universities see pay top £350,000 despite financial strife faced by institutions
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Scientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix?
The £2 million recently awarded to a whistleblower by a US court is a rare reward for the volunteers who trawl the scientific literature for error and fraud. Yet their numbers continue to grow. So...
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What teaching with stage IV cancer has taught me
Many of the lessons I’ve learned about community, grace and letting go are transferable regardless of subject or health, says Alexandra Dufresne
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Institutional neutrality an ‘overcorrection to statement culture’
New book argues it is a ‘myth’ that universities can stay silent on social and political issues
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Greek purge of 300,000 ‘eternal’ students ‘long overdue’
Big cut in enrolments seen as way of modernising country’s universities but some warn further changes are needed to stop students lingering for years
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Antisemitism probe ‘would lack credibility’ without campus focus
Shadow minister calls for newly established Australian Royal Commission to scrutinise universities in wake of deadly Bondi beach attack
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UAE cuts UK from scholarship funding over extremism concerns
Students encouraged to study elsewhere owing to concerns about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on UK campuses
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Will a mission group revival save universities or divide them?
Financial and political pressures have prompted universities to siphon themselves off into various groupings. Can such bodies help secure a fair deal for the sector, or are they destined to end up as...
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New UKRI targets for industry-funded research ‘challenging’
Dramatically increasing private spending on research may be unrealistic given current economic conditions, funder warned
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Iranian scholars fear tougher clampdown as protests spread
Campuses closed in attempt to quell unrest, with experts warning of risk of further brain drain unless protests deliver meaningful political change