UUK proposes less generous pensions to stave off USS price hike
Union warns that employers ‘have offered very little to dissuade members from voting for another round of industrial action’
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End huge obstacles to student mobility within MENA, summit told
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ event hears benefits of emulating Bologna Process would be huge, but efforts might need to start small
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‘Illogical’ that campuses can’t fully reopen next week, says UUK
Organisation writes to Boris Johnson asking why shops and gyms can reopen but 1 million students can’t return
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University access ‘protected by wealth’ for richest globally
Study finds that children of similar ability at all levels of school system are far more likely to attend university if they come from wealthy backgrounds
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UK study says block teaching boosts student grades
Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points
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‘Anti-left’ group targets Dutch academics with home visits
Online harassment is now spilling into the real world, with politically outspoken historians doxed and subject to posters warning: ‘You are being watched’
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Careers Clinic: how do I scope out a potential employer?
É«ºÐÖ±²¥â€™s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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The science detective on a mission to stamp out shoddy research
Elisabeth Bik has sounded the alarm on everything from hydroxychloroquine claims to Chinese ‘paper mills’
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Implicit bias training is often flawed but shouldn’t be scrapped
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities added to the scepticism but, done properly, training makes a difference, say Jules Holroyd and Jennifer Saul
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More Australian universities dive into the red
First institutional accounts reveal mixed results, with many institutions weathering the Covid storm but some plunging into deficit
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Liberal arts ‘face conflict but still key’ in restrictive societies
Academics emphasise role of critical thinking in societal development at ɫºÐÖ±²¥Â summit
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Slim overlap in research interests ‘sweet spot’ for collaboration
Paper finds academics are less likely to work together if they focus on very similar areas
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Singapore revamp breaks down disciplinary barriers
Sciences and humanities to be taught side by side starting this year in two leading institutions
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V-c on a mission to bring HE and FE together, from Oz to Shetland
New University of the Highlands and Islands principal discusses the unique value of multi-campus, regional universities and why the ‘binary’ narrative around further and higher education must change
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Insisting on in-person classes post-Covid is not a line we can hold
A strategic rejection of digital instruction is akin to France’s short-sighted attempt to prevent invasion in the 1930s, says Robert Zaretsky