‘Academic crowdsourcing’ allows lecturers to share ideas
Two networks in Australia and the US backed by the same start-up technology are blazing a new teaching trail
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CEMS: business education with ‘a feel of the United Nations’
The international aspects of the master’s at a worldwide alliance of business schools will produce ‘global citizens’ for a ‘volatile’ world, hopes its head, Roland Siegers
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Private universities damage education quality, says president of India
Comments come amid debate over whether to permit for-profit institutions to operate in the country
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Internationalisation is not an end itself
It’s not good enough just to jump on the internationalisation bandwagon – we have to measure outcomes, says Uwe Brandenburg
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Higher education Green Paper: Concerns over TEF timetable and fee caps
Sector questions feasibility of time frame for the teaching excellence framework
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THE books podcast: interview with Svetlana Stephenson
In-depth discussion with Gangs of Russia author
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'Even if Greece is bankrupt, we still have our bodies, and we will help those who need us'
An impoverished island's citizens and academics greet desperate refugees with compassion, in shocking contrast to governments' inaction. Dimitris Ballas writes from Lesvos
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Are Tories ‘ducking debate’ on big higher education policy changes?
John Morgan looks at how scrapping student grants sparked claims of a political fix
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Writing about sex (with footnotes)
Matthew Reisz recalls some memorable examples of academics venturing beneath the sheets
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Extremists of all hues ‘regard students as low-hanging fruit’
As many in the academy rail against Prevent, Anthony Glees urges them to reconsider
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How Qatar University became the most international institution in the world
Sustained investment in Middle Eastern higher education has begun to pay off, says Cesar Wazen
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My experience as an international student at the University of Geneva
Stella Sakellaridou, from Athens, reveals the international experience, social life and academic environment at the University of Geneva, ranked fifth in the world's most international...
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Student activists hit back at Oxford chancellor in Rhodes debate
“The notion that Cecil Rhodes should be...glorified in 2016 is no longer tolerable”: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
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Universities should ask whether their academics work too much
Scholars say they feel overwhelmed by demands, but there is scandalously little evidence on whether long hours make any sense for knowledge workers, finds David Matthews
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Indian student numbers continue to fall at UK universities
More first-year students from US than India starting at British institutions