University applications from white British students ‘lowest since 2008’
Ucas figures also show application gap between London and UK region with lowest rate has reached record level
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New NIH chief puts focus on research collaboration and outcomes
Monica Bertagnolli hopes for new era of research that sets the stage for essential societal change
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Why do US universities tolerate debt bondage on their Qatar campuses?
Institutions should push the Qatar government harder to improve conditions and wages for their migrant labourers, say Karl Widerquist and Ian Almond
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Deans’ lists of high-performing students fall out of fashion
Cornell and Penn among the Ivy League institutions to stop tradition to reduce stress over grades
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UK universities targeted by cyberattack
Hackers known as Anonymous Sudan reportedly take responsibility and cite ‘UK’s continued support for Israel’
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‘Certain death’ diagnosis ‘unique opportunity to drive research’
‘We have an obligation to try something ground-breaking,’ says oncologist confronting co-Australian of the Year’s brain cancer
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Lift student numbers cap, new Northern Ireland executive urged
After two years of inaction at Stormont, higher education sector has long to-do list for first minister Michelle O’Neill
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Midlands investment alliance aims to eclipse northern neighbour
Sharing resources and commercial risk will allow Midlands universities to better support research spin-outs, says Aston University leader
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Let’s recreate a campus culture that enables vigorous academic debate
The behaviour of some has effectively served to chill the views of others. But this flies in the face of universities’ core role, says Dawn Freshwater
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Closure of African history master’s faces legal challenge
Students sue Chichester over axeing of unique course, alleging discrimination and breach of contract
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New Zealand scraps research reforms and infrastructure funding
Uncertainty gives way to despair as new government pulls the plug on Science City and turns its back on reform process
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Science Europe head warns rise of far right could hurt research
Mari Sundli Tveit says academia depends on ‘openness, cross-border cooperation and mobility’
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Disciplinary and court hearings are no places to confront objectionable ideas
Debate risks legitimising dehumanising ideologies, but rebutting such views is how progress has always been made, says Eric Heinze
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UK universities’ Chinese student recruitment ‘getting harder’
Latest figures show Chinese application numbers back on trend, but caution sounded on headwinds and ‘super-dependence’