Administrator’s suicide came after refusal of mental health leave
President of Lincoln University in Missouri voluntarily agrees to take paid administrative leave following death of Antoinette Candia-Bailey
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‘Overcrowded’ Canadian provinces could face overseas students cap
Campuses in urban areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia may be first to face federal cap on education visas
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Icebergs, straight ahead
After years of warnings, a dip in international enrolments risks tipping universities into crisis. It is deeply strange that government seems not to care
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NAO: franchised HE fraud ‘potentially linked to organised crime’
University courses franchised to colleges accounted for 53 per cent of £4.1 million of fraud detected by SLC last year, says public spending watchdog
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Largest fall in post-92 undergraduate recruitment for a decade
Analysis of Ucas figures reveals which universities saw the largest falls in undergraduate recruitment
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Golden triangle research ‘no more golden than rest of UK’
Research quality more evenly spread than funding and ‘toxic cultural bias’ could be behind disparities, says geographical analysis for Hepi
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Vice-chancellors fear UK sector is hurtling into financial crisis
Almost no leaders in ɫºÐÖ±²¥Â survey expect government to support a university in serious trouble, as domestic and international funding woes leave one v-c fearing ministers ‘want to drive us out of...
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The week in higher education – 18 January 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Tribunal rebuke highlights Australian regulatory double standards
Good for the goose but not the gander, after college’s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding
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Are academia and motherhood incompatible?
While UK universities are starting to address the challenges faced by new mothers, combining parenthood and academia remains a difficult task. Five writers give their experience of what institutions...
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Interview with Mesias Alfeus
The senior lecturer in financial risk management discusses his academic career around the world, his admiration for Galileo and how a traditional game inspired his love of mathematics
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It is time for open access to move on from institutional repositories
The British Library cyber-attack underlines that HE and research libraries’ technologies and policies put us at too much risk, says Fiona Greig
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Can internationalisation save South Korea’s emptying universities?
As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola...
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Germany urges ‘realpolitik’ attitude to Chinese collaborations
German Academic Exchange Service advocates continued engagement, but on universities’ own terms
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Russian academic quits Estonian university after espionage arrest
Viacheslav Morozov of the University of Tartu was detained earlier this month