Embrace advent of Western remote tutors, African academics told
Ghanaian university president Patrick Awuah says local academics and students should welcome expertise that remotely based scholars bring
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Adam Rutherford: scientists have to be better at history
Geneticist warns of the dangers of ‘fetishising’ DNA and turning a blind eye to racism
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Leaders say turn away from humanities will harm critical thinking
Universities should ensure all students, including in sciences, can access ‘great humanities education’, Berkeley dean tells THE summit
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‘Democracy in freefall’ at Australian universities
Greens discussion paper blames corporate governance for sector’s most pressing problems
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In exile no more, Central European University puts down new roots
Rector Shalini Randeria wants displaced institution to broaden appeal at home in Vienna and for international student cohort
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We’ll write for you, plagiarism-free: essay mills’ latest ploy
Discounts, chatbots, money-back guarantees are tricks in contract cheating websites’ promotional armoury
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What students say they want is not always what they actually want
A major new survey underlines the value that students derived from flipped learning during the pandemic, says Harriet Dunbar-Morris
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Australia retreats from blanket political disclosure requirement
Refreshed guidelines allow universities to choose which academics face scrutiny of their overseas affiliations
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English regulator investigates Sussex over Kathleen Stock exit
Office for Students examining whether university met obligations on academic freedom and free speech, following criticism by minister
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UK union calls three-day strike next month over pay and pensions
Staff at 58 universities set to walk out
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Universities fail to give graduates right skills – Italian CEO
Academia should look to business-linked Israeli universities as a model for change, according to energy boss Francesco Starace
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‘We screwed this up’: Western retreats from lanyard ID plan
President of Canadian institution admits mistake in moving quickly amid concern over sexual assaults on campus and nearby violence
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Howard University students end month-long housing protest
Fearing for protester well-being, university’s president promises improvements in dormitory conditions to conclude uprising at prominent institution
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Highly Cited Researchers: China pursuit of US ‘to slow eventually’
Closing gap entirely will be ‘challenging’, says analyst behind annual list of Highly Cited Researchers
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Review promised after post-92 PhDs ‘excluded’ from UK postdocs
Economic and Social Research Council will look again at criteria that exclude PhD graduates from most modern UK universities from applying for postdoctoral funding