Universities have moral obligations – but not to take moral positions
Institutions must instead provide fora and establish rules for debating issues and their moral implications, says Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
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Arizona under pressure over Ashford student loan debt
As pressure builds for the University of Idaho to reconsider buying the University of Phoenix, a similar previous deal a thousand miles to the south finds mounting scrutiny
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The Gaza war shows why boosting understanding is humanities’ key role
Our department obliges Jewish studies students to study Islamic civilisation and vice versa. But will extremism put off applicants, asks Jonathan Judaken
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Social media abusers ‘a loud minority’
Commentators under fire for doing their job should remember their ‘silent’ supporters, says author of harassment survival guide
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Our new Saudi partnership is a huge opportunity for UK science
UK universities should leverage Saudi resources to build partnerships that will advance science and technology for mutual benefit, says Andrew Griffith
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Taylor & Francis acquires open-access publisher PeerJ
Deal ‘an important step in PeerJ’s evolution’, co-founders say
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French funding cuts ‘contradict’ Macron’s research pledge
Minister argues €900 million will have limited impact on science, but sector leaders are unconvinced
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Will Jo Grady’s wafer-thin mandate weaken union bargaining hand?
Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union
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National Science Foundation set for budget cut
Year after a strong boost, agency’s gamble on translational division gets knocked down as part of wider election-year retreat by Congress from federal science spending
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Open access transitional agreements ‘risk becoming the norm’
Jisc review finds UK ahead of global average on open access, but questions whether purportedly temporary measures are proving effective at driving change
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We must preserve language degree access for under-represented groups
With the University of Kent becoming the latest lower-tariff English university to mull course closures, students might be frozen out, says Becky Muradás-Taylor
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Strike over language cuts at Aberdeen called off after jobs saved
University lifts possibility of compulsory redundancies ahead of planned six-day walkout
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‘Stark decline’ in academic freedom: four in 10 face restrictions
Academic freedom is particularly at risk in countries with pronounced social and political polarisation, report says
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Why do UK universities keep losing legal cases?
Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change...
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‘Don’t cut foundation year fees, but end loans for poor courses’
Hepi report flags concerns over growth and quality of UK pre-degree programmes, but says across-the-board fee cut would be poor solution