Internationalisation 2.0: scaling up to meet the challenges
Universities are finding that feeding the growing worldwide hunger to learn requires an international team effort
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Elite universities ‘going backwards’ on widening access
Figures suggest Oxford and Cambridge among seven Russell Group institutions with lower proportion of poorer students compared with 10 years ago
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Pension and National Insurance hikes to hit academics hard
Extra contributions are likely to cost many university staff more than £1,000 a year, analysis shows
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Dwight Jaffee, 1943-2016
A prominent academic expert on banking, mortgages and insurance has died
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Should there be a right to offend on campus?
Free speech campaigners argue that campuses should not be entirely safe
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One in 10 staff ‘intimidated over sexuality or gender identity’
Survey suggests 3 per cent of higher and further education workers have been physically assaulted because they are homosexual, bisexual or transsexual
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The weirdest questions asked about your PhD
Doctoral student Ana Kedveš asked her colleagues to submit the strangest questions they have faced
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It’s not enough to just talk about mental health
Talking about student mental health is an important first step, but what use does it serve if nothing practically changes?
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Gravitational waves: making a ripple around the world
Being part of a 'Big Science' collaboration was challenging but exhilarating, says Martin Hendry
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What’s your Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number?
Len Fisher explores his links to a mathematician, a film star and a heavy metal band
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Unlimited student recruitment ‘transforms’ English universities
Acceptances nearly doubled for some universities, halved for others, since number controls eased in 2012
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Universities ‘ideally placed’ to assist refugees, says academic
Law professor at Queen Mary University of London organises open days for refugees and asylum seekers
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Thirteen Nigerian vice-chancellors replaced by president
Civil society groups attack move as ‘gross violation’ of academic autonomy