Mature students blocked from PhD study by ageist admissions practices
Universities need to review the unhelpful websites and unwittingly ageist admissions procedures that prevent older people becoming doctoral students, says Alison Etches
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Liberal arts ‘not a priority’ for research universities
Canadian college seeking to move away from parent institution after more than 140 years
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How our university won praise for its reaction to the shift online
The University of Groningen’s response to the pandemic has been widely lauded. Key to it was taking teachers and students seriously from the start, says Klaas van Veen
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Languages decline sees numbers drop to zero at UKÂ universities
Latest Ucas data show increasing concentration of undergraduates in handful of institutions
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Australian universities ‘singled out’ over ‘Frankenstein’ courses
Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations
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Sage: staggering campus reopenings ‘of limited value’
Bringing students back in tranches may increase the prospect of repeated self-isolation and may simply delay outbreaks of Covid-19, research says
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SOAS pledges ‘stand against antisemitism’ without IHRA definition
Hepi event also hears v-cs argue that free speech rows reflect wider social issues ‘at play in universities’ as key sites of debate
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Students embraced in Australian dole boost
Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments
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Mental scars caused by on-campus teaching in pandemic may not heal
Trauma suffered by lecturers who were forced to teach in-person during coronavirus spike should not be dismissed, say Paul Hanna, Carl Walker and Mark Erickson
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Racial equality efforts ‘must not stop at campus gates’
US professor says urban universities have to be better neighbours
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Who am I now? How the academic identity changed through Covid
Actors? Videographers? Graphic designers? Covid has forced academics to wear many uncomfortable hats, say Christine Rivers and Anna Holland
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Careers Clinic: what’s your top self-care tip for pandemic working?
É«ºÐÖ±²¥â€™s Careers Clinic brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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Early career researchers doubt fairness of promotion processes
Major UK survey finds established staff much more likely to have confidence in university over progression issues
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French minister doubles down on university ‘Islamo-leftism’ probe
But Frédérique Vidal admits the term ‘has no scientific definition’, and it remains unclear who will conduct the investigation
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Teqsa to consult on timing of research quality baselines
Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them