Norwegian universities minister resigns in arms contract row
Ola Borten Moe admits ‘serious misjudgement of my own impartiality’ over multibillion-krone contract meeting about a weapons manufacturer he had indirectly bought shares in
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‘Toxic’ anonymous online posts linked to university IP addresses
Jobs forum popular with economists accuses researchers of ‘hacking’ after locations of users exposed
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China-Taiwan trip could augur closer university collaboration
But some academics remain wary, warning over Beijing’s ‘manipulation’ of student exchange for political purposes
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DfE pushes for graduate earnings metric and franchising squeeze
Government alarms sector by pressing regulator for quality metric on earnings, which could potentially determine student number caps
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Australian accord’s challenge: boost enrolments in sceptical era
Once-in-a-generation review aims to massify a massified system, just as students question the cost-benefit equation
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Not agreeing UK Horizon Europe entry would be spectacular political failure
Perhaps the EU could give additional assurances that it would apply corrections if the UK won significantly less funding than it put in, suggests Jan Palmowski
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Post-92s record first drop in median graduate salaries
Longitudinal Education Outcomes data has been published annually since 2017
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Big data? Small data might offer richer pickings for researchers
European governments are beginning to take an interest in techniques to link scant evidence, as the euphoria about the benefits of mega datasets wanes
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Increased visa fees and ‘rip-off’ crackdown will level down the UK
International students contribute nearly £12 billion a year to the government’s priority areas for levelling up, says James Pitman
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Start-ups: the universities with the most successful alumni
Academics say university is the ideal time to launch a company
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Mature students stay away from university amid economic turmoil
Demand from older students could be falling because of expansion of opportunity for 18-year-olds over the past decade
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Self-regulation is not enough to uphold academic freedom
Former Oxford v-c Louise Richardson is wrong to dismiss the need for a free speech tsar in a massified system, says Ian Pace
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Manchester vice-president lashes out at staff in marking boycott
Keith Brown likens academics taking part in ‘shameful’ industrial action to those who ‘build their lives on the shattered dreams of others’
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Texas A&M president resigns over hiring controversy
Katherine Banks exits as fact-finding committee examines botched recruitment of Kathleen McElroy as director of journalism
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Bologna cheers pardon of student arrested in Egypt
Patrick Zaki earned gender studies master’s remotely after serving 22 months in pre-trial detention for writing about the experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christians during studies in Italy