Language departments in peril as Asia keeps foreign students away
Japanese and Korean schools struggle to recruit as border restrictions continue
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Australian international education ‘has failed soft power test’
Chinese students becoming more supportive of authoritarian government during time in liberal democracy
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Dominic Cummings: give Aria ‘extreme freedom’ from red tape
Former Downing Street guru says UK’s new research agency must be freed from ‘expensive disaster zone’ of science bureaucracy
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SOAS launches investigation after director’s use of N-word
Former ombudsman to examine allegations of ‘anti-black conduct’ going unaddressed after furore over Adam Habib’s comments
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Covid triggers change of guard in Australian sector leadership
With every second institution sporting a new boss, or looking for one, the pool of replacements may be shrinking
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Backlash as Hamburg boosts ‘unscientific’ Covid lab leak analysis
Critics say university lent undue weight to analysis that was not peer-reviewed, but some worry scientists have shied away from fully investigating hypothesis
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Ireland eyes global researchers under plan to double spending
Science Foundation Ireland sets out ambitious strategy to recruit internationally as part of growth plans that pivot towards fundamental research
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Risk-averse academy needs to get on board with new tech
We do our students a disservice by not educating ourselves on disruptive technologies such as VR and machine learning, says Christine JanssenÂ
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OfS investigates ‘conditional unconditional’ offer ban ‘breaches’
With record number applications and likely grade inflation, English regulator warns universities against ‘sacrificing quality for inflated intakes’
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Teaching both problem-solving and standard content is not impossible
The circle can be squared via long-term projects conducted outside the regular timetable, says Lindy Elkins-Tanton
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Leaders fear £1 billion-plus cut to fund UK Horizon association
Universities UK and Wellcome Trust express mounting fears about where funding to join European Union research programme will come from
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Campus Covid spread tied to small number of highly infected cases
University of Colorado study suggests low risk from most infected people, even room-mates
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Advisers quit over ‘draconian’ cuts to overseas research funding
International advisory panel heads condemn ‘inexcusable’ handling of cuts to research supported by foreign aid
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UK ‘science superpower’ status to bring ‘strategic advantage’
UK’s overhaul of defence and foreign policy sees science as ‘arena of systemic competition’
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California gets Elsevier open access deal after two-year impasse
University system will keep paying publisher about $13 million (£9.4 million) a year