Trans row: v-c’s email about vandalism ‘made staff feel unsafe’
Union president at transgender row university backs action against ‘bigots’, but draws the line at property destruction
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UK degree withdrawals pass 30,000 this academic year
Figures show that 2.1 per cent of all students withdrew from their studies by end of May
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Will the new REF rules level the playing field for the arts?
Challenges for practice research reflect broader issues around knowledge production and academic hierarchies, say Bill Balaskas and Katia Chornik
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Marking boycott ends at Queen’s Belfast as local deal agreed
UCU branch is first to settle dispute locally with frustration mounting at national impasse
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Universities want €200 billion research budget for next Horizon
Calls for EU politicians to trim fat from next framework programme, better protect its budget from raiding for pet projects and create a new category for Switzerland and the UK
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I’m a victim of ‘anti-male bias’ in science, says Nobel chemist
Switzerland’s Kurt Wüthrich clashes with female researcher after he claimed he was discriminated against at major conference
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Three hundred jobs face axe at Melbourne university
Staff ‘shell-shocked’ as declining enrolments, mounting costs and investment reversal trigger call for voluntary redundancies
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Diversity not essential for research excellence – Nobel pioneer
Germany’s only female Nobel scientist questions notion that diversity is key component of research success in modern science
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Beatings, lockouts, lawsuits: student journalism in Indonesia
While college press has a special place in the nation’s psyche, a legal ‘loophole’ leaves it exposed
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New Zealand university funding lifeline ‘welcome but not enough’
Critics say a temporary boost, in the form of money that had been earmarked for universities anyway, will not compensate for starvation rations
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Willetts: move universities from DfE ‘treating them like schools’
Tory former universities minister urges shift of responsibility to DSIT and binning of ‘Thatcherite rhetoric’ against industrial strategy
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Watchdog targets ‘misleading’ MBA adverts
London-based provider told to remove text from website that implied it could award postgraduate degrees
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US universities should teach a genuinely common core of knowledge
Graduates who can make connections across time and disciplines would be more stimulated, in both the workplace and wider life, says Harvey Graff
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AI must acknowledge scientific uncertainty, says Nobel laureate
Chemistry laureate Avram Hershko says ChatGPT should be forced to cite its sources and state uncertainty levels
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US academics pitch new Confucius Institute-style partnerships
While admitting the much-protested model is dead in the US, Dartmouth’s Hanlon leads expert panel in setting out ways that similar language-culture teaching programmes could grow