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Privately backed institutions seen as new model for higher education development
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EU universities bidding to attract UK-based researchers as Brussels-Westminster wrangles delay research deal
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Random selection from a gender-equal shortlist of qualified candidates would remove the effects of implicit bias, says Nathan Burke
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Heavy lies the Oxbridge crown
04/02/2022
With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates will need to do the job -
Interview with Marjoleine Kars
04/02/2022
The Cundill History Prize winner talks about uncovering a forgotten archive to tell the story of a slave rebellion ‘from the inside out’ -
While its educational niche may confer unique advantage, D’Youville shows it can maintain student services with one less day
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Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers
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As the pandemic increases public scrutiny of science, the UK Parliament is holding another inquiry into the long-running issue of reproducibility. Five of its contributors give their views on how sloppy science can be eliminated and trust be more firmly rooted
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Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal, warns Johnny Rich
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Interview with Rama Govindarajan
24/01/2022
Monsoon physicist talks through her journey resisting pressure to be ‘ladylike’ and becoming the only woman of 54 in chemical engineering class -
Cara Aitchison says UK universities should prioritise concerns like precarity, gender pay gap and ‘compassion for deep tired’ staff
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Universities show the way on transforming leadership culture, tackling period poverty, boosting African science and promoting leading research during the pandemic
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Do we really need deans and provosts?
06/01/2022
The pandemic may just push US colleges and universities to do what they should have done a long time ago: reorganise, says Michael Hadjiargyrou -
Teaching modules intensively, rather than in parallel, has had positive results at the handful of institutions that have tried it. But would it work for all students and all subjects? And would academics trade autonomy in course design for more research time? Anna McKie reports
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Allan Rechtschaffen, 1927-2021
06/01/2022
Tributes paid to ‘single-minded’ researcher who could tell you anything ‘you ever needed to know about sleep’ -
Survey of staff in 10 different countries also suggests general satisfaction with moves overseas, alongside lack of understanding from ‘onshore’ campus staff
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Conscripting industry players into research assessment roles will also turn the grant application process into ‘Frankenstein’s monster’
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Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates
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Is the university really a community?
23/12/2021
As the season of goodwill comes around again, warm words about collegiality and fellowship have been dutifully corralled into all-staff missives from university leaders. But in an era of management, metrics and industrial unrest, does the image of the academy as a commonwealth of scholars still b... -
Interview with Sujit Sivasundaram
23/12/2021
Cambridge professor discusses swapping engineering for history, why researchers overlook the Indian and Pacific oceans, and what it means to offer ‘an environmental lens’ on imperial history
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