UK academics ‘discriminate against political opposites’ – survey
Survey of UK academics finds both left and right discriminate against each other in hiring, funding and publishing decisions, leading to self-censorship across the sector
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Will China’s enrolment expansion devalue postgraduate degrees?
Falling staff-student ratios and low quality in some graduate programmes are prompting concern that more will mean worse, says Zhang Ruomei
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Research will suffer if community ties neglected, letter warns
Plea comes amid concerns that UK’s post-Covid research plans have yet to adequately map out non-commercial engagement Â
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The community sector is being excluded from UK HE’s post-Covid recovery
Now is the time to build a research infrastructure that harnesses and nurtures the energy, creativity and enterprise of the third sector, says letter
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#MeToo is failing at university
Sexual violence at the student level is being addressed, but what about when the perpetrator is a member of staff, asks Heather Savigny
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‘Urgent need’ for UK to better understand Chinese student needs
Universities should increase communication with education agents, especially over Covid fears, says working paper
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Binary concepts do not hobble academic thought
Critics underestimated the human imagination’s capacity to render concepts flexible, says Frank Furedi
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OfS plans new regulations on free speech and grade inflation
English regulator also says it wants to reduce overall burden on providers
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Covid-related exceptions from REF submission rules announced
Some staff whose work has been disrupted by pandemic can be excluded, and leeway on publication deadlines also introduced
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Graduate hiring outlook ‘brighter in continental Europe’
Early results from annual graduate employability survey suggest wide variations in views among firms due to pandemicÂ
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UCU: letting universities fail will mean towns and cities fail
Analysis for union shows universities are often among largest local employers and have ‘huge impact’ on town and city economies
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Hong Kong’s academics are being isolated in more ways than one
Lockdowns, campus protection and the new security law risk permanently cutting off scholars from the city and wider world, says Michael O’Sullivan
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Inclusion of support for research careers in next REF welcomed
UKRI says research organisations will have ‘greater financial incentive’ to invest in supporting scholars
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Row over Indian universities’ Covid-hit exams reaches Supreme Court
Hundreds of thousands left in limbo and questioning whether the country has the resources to hold tests safely during Covid-19 crisis
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Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism, by Wendy Liu
A fascinating insider’s account of launching a tech start-up engages Martin De Saulles even if it does not quite cohere as an agenda for change