PQA’s demise doesn’t mean England’s admissions system can’t be improved
Students need help to make better course choices and lifelong learners need a flexible application system, says Graeme Atherton
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Minister can veto our grants too: NHMRC
Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere
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Doncaster sets ‘paradigm shift’ for ‘sticky’ lifelong learning
South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise
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Do academic boycotts work?
The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?
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OfS puts 10 providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’ over ‘viability’
National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’
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Fulbright scholarship programme reinstated in Afghanistan
Students welcome turnaround, which comes after January announcement that US State Department had shuttered the scheme
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Is the World Bank’s intervention in Ukrainian HE too little, too late?
The attempt to improve the country’s universities was stuttering even before the war broke out, says Ararat Osipian
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Uncap places for all indigenous students, Australia urged
IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle
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Freeze in Russia relations ‘end of era’ for science cooperation
Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader
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US sector unions AAUP and AFT team up to fight partisan attacks
After a decade of growing together, top US faculty association set to organise inside second-biggest teacher union
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Melbourne barred from medical funding for lauding ‘six white men’
Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates
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Ex-minister warns against admissions ‘micromanagement’ via caps
Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system
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Australian university to publish student course evaluation data
Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff
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Missouri defends president’s right to cut faculty pay by quarter
Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded
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Most universities fail to show proof of gender equality policies
THE research finds that high share of global institutions fail to provide relevant documentation, despite claiming to have numerous measures aimed at supporting women