‘Continued urgent need’ to support displaced academics
Inspiring stories from alumni of the Scholar Rescue Fund reveal how they have enriched both host and home academic communities
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To preserve academic comfort zones, we must sometimes step out of them
Faculty must draw on abilities they have developed in the classroom to steer administrators in the right direction, says Karen Spierling
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Merkel successor rallies behind ‘attacked and defamed’ scientists
‘It is important that we clearly stand by scientists’ says Armin Laschet, as Germany gears up for September election
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UK Academic Salon examines reality of ‘science superpower’ rhetoric
Speakers at Huawei-backed event to include Anton Muscatelli and Jo Johnson
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Researchers despair as Microsoft shuts down academic services
Decision will impact other tools that relied on Microsoft’s database and raises questions about relying on private firms, critics say
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China Subject Ratings provide reference for First Class Discipline development
China could optimise its subject classification by learning the global practice of broad subject grouping, Lyu Mingxia writes
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‘The whole system has collapsed’: Covid ravages Indian campuses
Public universities could be ‘hit beyond repair’ in fallout from pandemic catastrophe, experts warn
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US college’s student inventors gaining national attention
Service for local companies grabs spotlight as potential aid to competitiveness
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Tie-up puts northern universities in big league for spin-offs
New alliance of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield will put them on more equal footing with golden triangle institutions when seeking investment for start-ups, says adviser
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HKUST plans a different kind of university in mainland China
New campus to be set up with industry-friendly ‘hubs’, not faculties
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Faith universities are an anachronism
Churches’ grip on former religious teacher training colleges is incompatible with their remit as publicly funded universities, says Keith Sharpe
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LGBT+ university staff face slurs ‘at least monthly’
Three in 10 respondents to UCU survey say that they have experienced homophobic language in workplace
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Bettering Humanomics, by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Laura Harvey applauds an attempt to bring more humanistic modes of thinking into the ‘dismal science’
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Female researchers join forces to make fieldwork safer
Network aims to highlight problem of gender-based harassment in the field, support victims and encourage institutions to improve safeguarding
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US states’ attacks on critical race theory continue post-Trump
Lawmakers and activists work to forbid talk of enduring inequities