Bristol v-c defends marking essays during assessment boycott
Historian vice-chancellor Evelyn Welch has faced criticism for marking final-year dissertations personally
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The degree apprenticeship route into medicine is not a threat to quality
The route will ease the staffing crisis by widening access, but apprentices will have to pass the same professional exams as everyone else, says Nichola Hay
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Education research should be central to the academy. Why isn’t it?
Our report suggests the discipline is struggling in the UK amid low funding and methodological clashes, say four academics
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New universities will ‘increase strain’ in South Africa
Academics question whether two new institutions are needed in a system already facing growing pains
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Citation counting is encouraging cheating in Iran
Ministers’ metric-based boasts about the country’s scientific prowess are belied by the reality, as a recent incident illustrates, says Roohola Ramezani
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Australian international education notches most lucrative quarter
Revenue and visa applications reach record levels, but have not yet translated into record student numbers
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UCU meets pay deduction threats with further strikes
Branches across the UK aim to disrupt open days and graduations with fresh round of action as tensions rise
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Germany’s leading rector wants to end university hierarchies
Walter Rosenthal aims to use German Rectors’ Conference presidency to find common ground between applied science and traditional universities
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Diversification of research replacing US hegemony, says Marginson
Centre-periphery model of higher education ‘already obsolete’, with strong research output from a growing number of nations, scholar tells Boston conference
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Canberra urged to prevent ‘unethical’ onshore foreign student recruitment
Australian government advised to ban agents from taking commission for recruiting foreign students already in country and to ‘link’ visas to institutions
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The Elizabeth Hoover case exposes our fallacies about identity
Outrage at cases of falsely claimed Native identities is fuelled by the conflation of positionality with academic merit, says Jonathan Zimmerman
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How to avoid a media disaster and get noticed for the right reasons
When she was BBC Newsnight’s top booker, Sam McAlister persuaded Prince Andrew to give his infamous interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. She tells Jack Grove how academics can avoid...
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How scholars can become manifesto makers
With a UK general election potentially less than a year away, there is no better time for academics to influence political thinking, says ex-MP Natascha Engel
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The week in higher education – 8 June 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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8 June 2023 digital edition
Everything to lose: Are South African universities at risk of falling?