14 September 2023 digital edition
Hard launch: Do UK ‘challenger institutions’ have a real chance of soaring?
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Alfaisal University sponsored supplement digital edition
From ideas to impact: driving research innovation at Alfaisal University
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University challenge
For over a decade, the UK government has urged ‘challenger’ institutions to shake up the higher education status quo. But there is scant evidence of success
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California State hiking tuition fees 33 per cent over five years
While faculty, students and politicians protest, biggest US four-year system notes that it remains major bargain by nationwide measures
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Talking leadership: David Garza on enticing top scholars to Mexico
Monterrey Institute of Technology’s president says it is setting aside £46 million for international hires to compete with the global standard of living
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Yascha Mounk: Identity-focused campus culture is new threat to democracy
Barack Obama’s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target – identity politics fostered on US campuses – will surprise many of his...
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Interview with Stephen Smartt
The astronomer discusses the discovery of stars that explode as supernovae, having his work replicated in Minecraft and the importance of public understanding to astrophysics
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One in four UK universities now running a food bank
Hepi report warns of ‘cost-of-learning’ crisis and finds significant variation in value of hardship funds
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Manchester boots out masturbation paper PhD student
Karl Andersson’s article about his use of provocative images of young boys caused outrage among MPs and scholars
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Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’
Site’s loss of influence in higher education may have repercussions for academics’ research, careers and support networks, experts say
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The week in higher education – 14 September 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Academia’s cancel culture distracts from the right’s free-speech abuses
Why are so many on the identitarian left so quick to reduce differences of opinion to existential threats to marginalised groups, asks Umut Özkırımlı
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Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’?
A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and...
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Wikipedia ‘is ideal tool’ to measure dissemination of science
Article edit history is an untapped resource in charting the evolution of scientific knowledge over time, researchers say
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Universities can be research arms of local authorities – report
Academics say closer links with public services will help to bring scholars closer to their communities