The threat to standards in UK universities
While their credentials are not in dispute, institutions could have their teaching and research undermined by a crisis in morale
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Give staff space to flag concerns about inequality
Kalwant Bhopal鈥檚 call for universities鈥 funding to be linked to their efforts to address racial inequality (鈥淭ie funding to tackling racial inequality, says professor鈥, News, 29 March) needs early...
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Dangerous stance
The co-authors鈥 response (Letters, 22 March) to my review of Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body (Books, 15 March) miscasts my critique as personalised. I did not call them 鈥...
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End the 鈥榚e鈥 trend
I do hope that Robert Zaretsky鈥檚 tribute to Simone Weil (鈥淲ait 鈥 and see鈥, Opinion, 29 March) will be read by organisers of academic conferences and other events. They should, then, abandon the term...
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Unconditional fail
Much of the problem in 鈥淎s the lowest rise, so too do fears of grade inflation鈥 (News, 5 April) is not because of grade inflation but the issue of the 鈥渦nconditional for all鈥 approach seen in much of...
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Lookalike v-cs 鈥榙eter academic talent from staying in Australia鈥
Leaders from Anglo-Celtic and European backgrounds fail to reflect diversity of campuses, says report
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CEU head: academic freedom must be seen as good for wider society
Michael Ignatieff聽says higher education聽will lose battle against authoritarianism if聽scholars鈥 rights are聽seen only as 鈥榓聽corporate privilege鈥
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UK business schools increasingly reliant on EU for research cash
Domestic funding for business and management research down a quarter in real terms in six years
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Report lifts lid on cost of subscription deals with publishers
A switch to open access could save hundreds of millions of euros, says analysis from the European University Association
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鈥楻eal-time鈥 review of REF 2021 to track impact of reforms
Funding administrating body aims to survey 600 researchers across four universities to examine effects felt by reforms made to the assessment
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ResearchGate still infringing copyright, publishers say
Battle between publishers and academic social network deadlocked