Integrity drives must reflect overseas students’ cultural conditioning
Putting the onus on students to maintain honour can be effective but it takes time to assimilate the mindset, says Sara Pervaiz Amjad
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Transdisciplinary partnerships can harness African universities’ power
Local and international collaboration will allow institutions to tackle the challenges of sustainable development, says Tawana Kupe
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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum wins 2021 Holberg Prize
Committee praises commitment to ‘making a real and lasting difference’ as well as ‘unquestionable academic eminence’
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Canadian Nobelists warn country over innovation malaise
Top scientists say Canada must provide more fulfilling careers for its science graduates
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One-fifth of the world’s top universities led by women
Number of female vice-chancellors at high-ranking institutions has reached new milestone based on THE World University Rankings data
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MIT Press to publish monographs open access from 2022
Historic in-house press at Massachusetts Institute of Technology asking libraries for participant fee to enable titles to become publicly available
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London Met creates £15 million fund to hire 80 minority staff
University pledges to embed critical race theory and ‘decolonial discourse’ in all disciplines
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Dutch research funder operations frozen for a month after hack
Unlike Dutch universities, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research cannot pay a ransom to attackers because it is a public body
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The government is the biggest threat to French academic freedom
The crackdown on ‘Islamo-leftism’ is a purely political move to court right-wing votes in the coming election, says William Barylo
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Social sciences’ lack of common truth criteria invites political attack
Worries about Islamo-leftism in France and free speech in England reflect disciplines’ straddling of science and activism, says Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière
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Policy paucity ‘ruining Australian universities’ revival efforts’
Superficial thinking in Canberra is squandering transformative opportunity for higher education, Brisbane forum hears
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The New Internationalists, by Sue Clayton
Catherine Rottenberg applauds a bold attempt to forge a politics of solidarity in response to humanitarian crisis
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Covid rules relaxed as launch day set for UK post-study work visa
Graduate route will allow international students to to stay in the country to work for two years, or three for doctoral students
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Otto Dov Kulka, 1933-2021
Tributes paid to a Holocaust scholar who also produced an ‘immensely moving’ account of his traumatic childhood
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A crack in the foundations
International student mobility was the rock on which universities built their empire. With Covid turning prior certainties into unknowns, what now?