The road to student retention
Well-targeted mental health support can help students stay on track in an uncapped sector, says David Laws
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I鈥檓 a university teacher clawing my way back to the middle class
How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as 鈥減oor鈥?, asks Andrew W. Robinson
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Iran鈥檚 coming in from the cold but Bah谩鈥櫭璼 are still frozen out
Discrimination and university expulsions continue to blight the lives of this religious minority, writes Shabnam Moinipour
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Africa university alliance 鈥榳ill boost higher education鈥
Director of education and society at the British Council says Western universities must prove they do not have 鈥榠mperialist鈥 designs on the continent
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Can academics change their students鈥 personalities?
鈥楥haracter education鈥, a concept that has taken off among schoolteachers, could be coming to higher education
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Barack Obama free community college plan backed by $100m funding
鈥楢merica鈥檚 Promise Grants鈥 find way around Republican block in Congress
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Working together for the public good
Mark Shucksmith considers whether better knowledge exchange between academics and the third sector could serve as a mechanism for social change
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How to make a success of crowdfunding your next book
Planning, personal connections and relentless self-promotion could just unlock the largesse of the masses, says Glen Wright
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Chinese private school company buys US university campus
Weiming Education Group, the largest provider of private schools in China, is branching out into the US
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Fundraising regulator 鈥榗ould impact university-alumni relations鈥
Ross-CASE report finds that four-fifths of philanthropic donors to universities are alumni
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Is China鈥檚 鈥楴eo-Maoist鈥 higher education gaining ground?
Both the government and resurgent left-wing groups are promoting 鈥榬ed education鈥 in the country鈥檚 universities
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Universities and charities 鈥榥eed to work closer together鈥
The academy needs to look beyond knowledge transfer to co-production when it comes to working with the third sector, a report says
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Highly novel research proposals 鈥榖eing systematically rejected鈥
Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates
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Tennessee passes bill to stop funding university diversity office
University of Tennessee at Knoxville office has been focus of criticism from politicians in US state, reports Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed