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Third of students want to ban Reform from speaking on campuses
Polling suggests confused picture on free speech, with students keen to deplatform controversial politicians but also rejecting limits on what people can say
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Penalise ‘retraction hotspot’ universities, says integrity expert
Indian campaigner Achal Agrawal says research watchdog he founded gets tens of tip-offs regarding suspected malpractice every day
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New OfS provider panel to be ‘critical friend’ to regulator
Senior leaders selected to help guide higher education watchdog as it attempts to work more collaboratively with sector
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Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
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Public speaking: the unspoken route to academic impact
Speakers’ bureaux are largely designed to promote celebrity after-dinner entertainers, but they are also being adopted by some academic publishers as a way to boost their authors’ long-term profiles...
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Better education can help science deliver for democracy amid populism
Across schools and universities, students must be taught how the scientific method reveals workable policy options – not diktats, says Peter Calow
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Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
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Improve working conditions to get SFC funding, universities told
Scottish institutions made to address workplace inequalities and zero-hours contracts as condition of receiving grants
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Union brands London Met cuts an ‘act of institutional vandalism’
University’s plan to cut more than 100 academic roles puts its reputation for inclusive education at risk, fears UCU
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Vice-chancellors under pressure from OfS to cut China ties
Leaders face grilling from free speech director amid concerns about Chinese government-backed scholarships
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Academics turn to TikTok in search of new ways of engaging public
Scholars with large followings on app say it is a good way to change misconceptions about what they do
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Bursaries only for full-time students ‘discriminatory’
Inclusion worker challenges institutions whose scholarship programmes are not open to all after missing out on place on master’s
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China aims for ‘quality’ overseas students with admissions exam
Experts say introduction of compulsory test for all undergraduate courses shows country’s shifting approach to internationalisation
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Humanities cuts leave us defenceless in the age of AI
It is vital to examine what chatbots’ behaviour reveals about their underlying structures – and human responses to them, says Agnieszka Piotrowska