Academics, meet your new research partners: tourists
With cash, equipment and time on their hands, holidaymakers can add scale to citizen science projects, review finds
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Supporting student entrepreneurship could also boost lecture attendance
Self-employment teaches valuable skills and offers more flexibility to fit work around academic and domestic demands, says Robert Phillips
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USS warns members’ data may have been stolen by Capita hackers
Outsourcing firm used by UK’s largest academic pensions scheme targeted in cyberattack
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Animal rights petition ‘existential threat’ for EU research
Groups gather more than a million signatures to ‘modernise science’ by phasing out animal research, forcing commission to respond
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English voters quizzed on tuition fee preferences
Poll will provide first constituency-by-constituency breakdown of how voters see issue of higher education funding
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Gambling threat ‘rising on US campuses’
As dozens of student-athletes come under investigation, expert predicts major harms on campus from national embrace of sports betting
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Why aren’t we acting on the evidence of what works for gender equality?
Abundant myths and historical stereotypes are sustaining the harmful notion that girls just don’t like mathematical subjects, says Athene Donald
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Can Hong Kong’s HK$10m drive diversify its student pool past China?
Vietnam and Malaysia among more ‘promising’ countries targeted, but city seen as likely to struggle to draw students from further afield
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Interview with Paterson Joseph
New chancellor of Oxford Brookes University on overcoming racism at school, ‘tedious’ drama school politics and ‘nonsense’ claims of ‘wokery’ over decolonisation of curricula
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Lifelong loans: traditional degrees ‘elephant in the room’ in debate
Costly residential degrees will eat up LLE funding, leaving ‘difficult choices about how to divide up the cake’, warns OU v-c in Hepi paper
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Changes for stability in THE’s 2023 Impact Rankings
Duncan Ross, THE’s chief data officer, outlines new measures to stabilise this year’s rankings amid record participation and more demanding sustainability metrics
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UK student visas: ministers urged to give clarity on dependants
Report suggests UK government is finalising plan to stop master’s students bringing family members with them
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Indian universities told to offer entrance exams in local languages
UGC move meant to make higher education less English-centric ‘could backfire’ without more support for institutions, academics say
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Sydney notches big surplus in a sea of red
Healthy result provides ‘financial sustainability’ in a ‘volatile higher education sector’, vice-chancellor says
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Research institutions ‘pay lip service’ to integrity rule
‘Census’ of research integrity advisors finds that their role is unknown to many, sometimes including themselves