‘Lower tolerance for failure’ on technology as finances dive
Financial constraints reducing appetite for risky experimentation but pressures can also help to ‘clarify minds’, say experts
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Canadian budget pledges major investment in research and students
After flat research funding drew complaints last year from universities, new plan warmly welcomed
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‘Illegal’ terms and conditions add to academic overwork crisis
Study finds scholarly autonomy used to justify breaches of 48-hour weekly working hours cap
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Congress pushes NIH to review reproducibility and ‘near misses’
As part of annual budget, lawmakers also call for focus on fraud, new funding models and peer review
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UK graduates less likely to go straight into work after degree
Young people experiencing increasingly turbulent starts to their working lives, study finds
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How to make the most of resistance in research subjects
Boston ethnographer argues that people often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles
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Labour leads among UK students, but three in 10 still undecided
Young voters ‘desperate for politicians to offer them more’, feeling that MPs don’t value their views
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Academic freedom should not be restricted to supposed core expertise
The broad approach taken by the OfS’ guidance on free speech will safeguard orthodoxy-challenging work, say Abhishek Saha and Ian Pace
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Universities’ ChatGPT misconduct focus ‘panicked students’
Institutions ‘got it wrong’ by putting all the attention on assessment when large language models first launched, say experts
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‘Break out of silos’ to share research technology and data
Tying state-of-the-art digital research infrastructure to particular research communities should give way to more equitable landscape, conference hears
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Slash wasteful IT spend and invest in academics instead – expert
Former government adviser says a modest cut in operating costs could allow for a doubling of the number of UKÂ academics
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Create European institute for AI research, Brussels told
Artificial intelligence infrastructure currently dominated by corporations, scientific advisory group warns
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Hong Kong v-c cleared of misconduct fears long-term damage
HKU leader Xiang Zhang wants better protection for staff from ‘malicious’ allegations levelled anonymously
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Massey pushes ahead with Singapore branch campus
Offshore venture will neither require funds from nor contribute to its struggling New Zealand parent, at least in the short term
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Decolonisation of African universities ‘could reduce brain drain’
Higher education sectors born out of empire fail to meet local skill needs, says professor