English lifelong loans plan aims to ‘divert demand’ from degrees
Sector awaits key details on scheme requiring ‘complete remake of student finance system’ and likely to face Treasury scepticism
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The week in higher education – 23 December 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Are you suffering from academania?
The escalating pressures of university life are resulting in all manner of exotic new psychological disorders. Adrian Furnham opens his casebook
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23 December 2021 digital edition
Goodwill to all? Academics reflect on the image and reality of campus as community
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A fine romance: take two
In John Gilbey’s seasonal tale, life imitates on-screen romance when a film crew is duped into choosing the distinctly unphotogenic University of Rural England as the location for its next blockbuster
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Is the university really a community?
As the season of goodwill comes around again, warm words about collegiality and fellowship have been dutifully corralled into all-staff missives from university leaders. But in an era of management,...
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UCU: sexual harassment rife as UK universities ‘protect predators’
Star professors who abuse their positions escape censure because universities fear hit to reputations and funding, says union report
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Australian government approves delayed research grants
But silence on flagship Discovery scheme leaves an estimated 3,000 applicants facing Christmas limbo
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ARC changes ‘will undermine peer review’, say academics
Conscripting industry players into research assessment roles will also turn the grant application process into ‘Frankenstein’s monster’
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Harvard’s Lieber convicted in anti-China crackdown
Jury takes three hours to agree nanoscience expert lied about Wuhan ties to sidestep pressure campaign against binational research partnerships
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European university alliance seeks merger
European University of Technology exploring how to become a single institution, but going beyond a legal umbrella raises regulatory and funding questions
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Academics reluctant to report violent online threats to police
Barely half of victims report threats to police, says Finnish study, which finds perpetrators of harassment are not infrequently colleagues of those they target
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Can our campus cough squad force good sense on maskless students?
Unclear guidelines, screen-tanned conspiracy theorists and government party animals: none of them is helping campus security, says George Bass
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Menstruation’s impact on university education ‘overlooked’
University students’ experiences attract some attention in developing countries but almost none in the West, study finds
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Australian migration rules ‘risk international education crisis’
Policies risk inciting behaviour worse than 2000s immigration scams, expert warns