Wollongong council pulls rank to OK Western civilisation course
Governing body gambit torpedoes court case but further isolates academic senate
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REF: 15% of academics in survey ‘made to change research focus’
Nearly one in five respondents to four-campus study said they feared role change if they underperformed
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Journal articles ‘should cost £300 to publish’
Calculation by open access campaigners questions supposedly unnecessary spending by publishers on lobbying, marketing and executive pay
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ETH apologises for postdoc job advert demanding ‘Nature paper’
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
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India makes a welcome turn to the liberal arts
The New Education Policy breaks with India’s post-independence preference for vocational avenues of upward mobility, says Saikat Majumdar
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Embrace voluntary free speech code or else, Australian v-cs told
Do as we say, not as we do, government tells universities after ministers reject another optional recommendation of French review
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US journalism schools search for answers in Trump era
Tutors struggle to prepare reporters for public less interested in facts
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Brazil’s vision for science is strangling the humanities
More investment in gaining skills like critical thinking and problem solving would help the country combat social inequalities, says Sarah O’SullivanÂ
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It’s time the UK starts talking about graduate outcomes for international students
To meet the country’s ambitious student recruitment targets, UK institutions should make better use of data showing the return on investment of their degrees, writes Louise NicolÂ
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UK campus will teach China to open education to world, says dean
Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School’s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China
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A networked university is a truly global one
Large-scale, transdisciplinary networks of universities represent the next phase of internationalisation, says Patrick PrendergastÂ
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Cambridge’s Trinity faces union boycott after confirming USS exit
Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity
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Educational charities must behave charitably
It is not enough for UK universities with charitable status merely to conduct teaching and research, say Nicola Dandridge and Helen Stephenson
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The climate emergency and the new civic role for the university
As we face a climate emergency, universities must undergo radical change to lead the way in tackling the crisis, Paul Chatterton writes