Newcastle University staff vote to join wave of strike action
Newcastle University votes in favour of industrial action, joining Dundee and East Anglia in achieving successful ballots
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‘Normalise’ annual tuition fee rises, say vice-chancellors
Regular increases in what students in England pay should be accompanied by more public money for ‘strategic priorities’, Universities UK tells ministers ahead of spending review
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UK researchers lose grant cash in Trump’s anti-DEI purge
UK society for American studies has funding removed for not complying with US Embassy request on new president’s diversity policies
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Wait for Innovate UK chief raises doubts over funder’s future
Year-long succession process and budget delays have prompted speculation over possible reforms to £1 billion UK innovation research agency
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‘Rebirth’ for New Zealand student unionism
New national body takes shape, as troubled centenarian predecessor faces curtain
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Accepting ethnic graduation gap is ‘macroscopic microaggression’
‘I want to understand as best we can quantitatively, what are the things that lead to our students leaving?’ says University of Colorado Boulder leader
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Advisers quit over ‘deeply disappointing’ Greek research policy
Distinguished scientists who left Greece’s National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation criticise fragmented oversight and excess bureaucracy
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The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line
Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected...
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Making students write by hand would improve their learning
There is something about handwriting that enhances the creative flow essential for academic study and scholarly activity, says Rich Smith
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UK urged to back creative technologies catapult
Better collaboration needed between industry and universities to develop the sector, says report
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Thousands call for Coventry v-c to lose government role
A union has warned that John Latham’s position is ‘incompatible’ with his responsibilities at the crisis-hit institution
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Stand-in v-c denies moonlighting with restructure consultancy
Fortnightly leave pass to ‘provide leadership’ to consultants helped Wollongong’s interim boss ‘stay in touch with colleagues’
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Higher education needs a mechanism to challenge student accommodations
I don’t begrudge granting help to students who need it, but we must also have guard rails to deny it to those who don’t, says Nikolay Kukushkin
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What legacy does Yale-NUS College leave in Singapore?
Long caught up in debates about academic freedom and internationalisation, liberal arts may not survive in city state beyond closure of pioneering partnership
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Universities ‘capitulated’ on transgender medicine, scholars say
Two dozen academics join ‘mainstream’ call for a health check on youth gender treatment