Kofi Annan: academics key to driving policy direction
Former UN secretary general insists that scholars have to make politicians listen in order to influence change
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University of Edinburgh academics in office door glass panel row
Some scholars claim plans are more about improving staff visibility to students than brightening corridors
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Ten tips that will help you build your academic reputation
For those aspiring to an academic career, a PhD is the entry ticket to a world where reputation is all, says Robert MacIntosh. Here are his 10 top tips for early career researchers
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Oxford Jewish students demand Labour ‘action’ over antisemitism
Jeremy Corbyn urged to investigate claims of abuse much more actively and openly
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Inaugural É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Innovation and Impact Summit to be held in Hong Kong
Times Higher Education’s debut event on universities’ innovation and impact will be held in partnership with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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‘Quantifying teaching excellence is a hotly contested subject. My advice would be to look at Jim Stewart, and work down from there’
Keith Williams eulogises a colleague who always put his students first and ‘kept the flame of old-fashioned scholarly virtues burning’
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Labour antisemitism inquiry academic on being caught in a storm
David Feldman describes his experiences of being ‘misrepresented in the public sphere’
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Delay TEF development in light of Brexit vote, says UUK
Vice-chancellors argue that exercise should not go beyond pilot stage because of ‘significant instability’
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Jo Johnson says he has no ‘hard’ proof of EU funds block
Minister invites researchers to send ‘concrete’ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grantsÂ
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Students assessed on getting peers to contribute to seminars
University of Hertfordshire modules are marking how well classmates encourage each other to participate
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Fury over France’s new ‘pseudo’ PhDs
Plans to allow graduates of France’s most elite higher education institutions to claim the title of PhD without taking a viva have enraged some Gallic scholars
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British Academy warns over ‘disincentives’ to interdisciplinarity
Government and universities must find ways to remove obstacles to cross-cutting research, says report
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Student sues university over single sex lab group
Lawsuit against University of Cincinnati claims decision went against US gender discrimination laws. Maxine Joselow reports for Inside Higher Ed.
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Thousands sign petition calling for Iran to free professor
Iranian-Canadian Homa Hoodfar, who has conducted research on Islamic family law and Muslim dress codes, was imprisoned last month
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Four things that must happen to protect higher education after Brexit
The UCU's Sally Hunt warns that if people from the EU no longer feel welcome in UK universities, the damage to our international academic reputation will be near fatal