UCU offers ‘significant concessions’ in pay and pensions disputes
Negotiators ‘within reach of agreements’ as union cuts demands on pay rises and pension contributions, says general secretary
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More Australian universities offer cash help over coronavirus
Australian National University unveils latest assistance package for travel-stymied students
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Coronavirus hampering Chinese recruitment, say US universities
Survey reveals how US universities are managing travel restrictions and test suspensions
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Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis, by Alicia Mireles Christoff
Jane O’Grady is intrigued by an analysis of the psychological depths plumbed by the fiction of George Eliot and Thomas HardyÂ
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The Idea of the Brain: A History, by Matthew Cobb
Shane O’Mara considers the many different and always inadequate metaphors we have used to analyse our mental functioningÂ
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Women make progress on authorship but miss grants and patents
Large-scale analysis of data on published research suggests female academics now outnumber men in some fields, but significant inequalities remain
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Chris Skidmore: UK universities must embrace the future
Although his two stints as universities and science minister only added up to 400 days, Chris Skidmore has strong views about the challenges and opportunities that confront institutions as they are...
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UNSW gets approval for second Canberra campus
Capital set to become more crowded, as territory government greenlights sixth campus
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5 March 2020 digital edition
Soaring ambitions: Can Mena universities help realise the region’s potential?
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Interview with Baroness Hale
The former president of the Supreme Court, now a UCL honorary professor, discusses being a ‘speccy swot’ and the need to protect the ‘cardinal principles of our constitution’
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Philip Lowe, 1950-2020
Tributes paid to ‘inspirational’ environmental sociologist who ‘made work feel like play’
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Plan to expand Sheffield’s AMRC into ‘MIT’ put to ministers
Proposal aims to ‘propel the regeneration of manufacturing in the North and Scotland’, but Sheffield pushes back against calls to make centre independent
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Skidmore rejects ‘university-bashing’ and urges funding stability
Ex-minister also calls for ‘period of stability’ in English funding
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Majority of students still prefer physical books, survey finds
Blackwell’s survey also finds that lecturers rate physical books as better tools for learning