End ‘witch-hunt’ against v-cs over high pay, says report
Hepi author warns of ‘dangerous’ pressure to reduce leaders’ salaries in reaction to attention from the media and politicians
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Balancing humility and conviction is the art of disagreeing well
Those with passionate convictions must be willing to concede their arguments may be flawed or even wrong if useful debate is to happen on campus, says UCL president Michael Spence
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The week in higher education – 31 August 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Taiwanese students get ‘mental health days’ as suicides rise
Leading institution joins peers in permitting students to take leave without proof of illness
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Can the REF really address the research environment crisis?
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
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Laura Favaro: gender studies ‘groupthink is forcing scholars out’
Researcher who revealed censorship of gender critical feminists says no-debate policies on transgender issues are causing ‘scholarly paralysis’
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Bullying is a feature of UK research universities, not a bug
Departmental hierarchies, job precarity and institutions’ need to protect their star professors enables bullies to thrive in Britain’s top universities, says Wyn Evans
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NIH ban on AI in grant review ‘lacks technological understanding’
Academics say largest US research funder’s policy aimed at stopping ideas theft could also apply to search engines
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Jadavpur set to miss out on ‘Institution of Eminence’ status
Disappointment comes months after v-c told alumni that government funding was ‘becoming extremely inadequate’
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Credentials ‘increasingly important’ for any job
More people need degrees just to keep up with the crowd, analysis of Australian census data suggests
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Supervisors and gender shape PhD patenting track record
US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents
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Return of staff elections ‘victory for democracy’ at Maynooth
Irish university pulls back from plan to handpick internal members of governing authority
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UK fundraising growth ‘remarkable’ as workforce expansion lags
Report calls for campaign to boost ‘esteem and attractiveness’ of sector’s advancement profession
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Shootings mar start of academic year in US
Faculty member shot dead at UNC, gunman chased from Florida HBCU kills three black shoppers, student dies trying wrong house
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Irish universities’ growth ‘limited by accommodation shortfalls’
Post-Brexit expansion comes amid a shortfall of 30,000 beds, with student groups warning universities need to be more upfront about the issues