Sector agencies told to take lead on diversifying reading lists
New study shows reading lists are still overwhelmingly ‘male and pale’
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Careers intelligence: how job shares can help women progress
Emma Watton and Sarah Stables share insights from their research on, and personal experience of, how job shares can help women secure senior roles and also benefit universities
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Teaching critical thinking is not universities’ raison d’être
Such skills can be learned relatively easily and cheaply. Universities should develop expertise in fields essential to human flourishing, says Andrew Moore
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Norton turns ‘firepower’ on student number allocation in ANU post
Respected policy analyst nominates funding and student loans as key areas of research
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New ‘strategic body’ for education part of Labour’s English plan
Party’s lifelong learning report features call for new organisation to coordinate across National Education Service
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Violence overwhelms Hong Kong universities as protests spread
Police use tear gas on campus for first time since protests began
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Steep conference fees ‘exclude academics’
Conferences should be part of the open access debate, Tokyo researcher says
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Cal State’s remedial study reform now national ‘wave’, says head
US’ biggest four-year university system reduces barriers for struggling entrants
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Italy to set up national research funder at last
Announcement by new government given cautious welcome by academics – although questions remain over funding and political independence
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Business as usual won’t help business schools solve the climate crisis
Management academics need to be supported to bring teaching and research on global warming into the mainstream, say Amanda Goodall and Susan Hill
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German excellence strategy ‘risks creating closed social elite’
Leading sociologist of inequality fears boosting the status of a select few universities could mean a closed educational elite, as in the US or France
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Managers who ‘fetishise’ certain journals warp incentive culture
UK research culture likened to 1970s car industry, with individuals ignoring quality concerns
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Support for cross-border teacher education in Ireland is more important than ever
A north-south network for educators has been instrumental in the Irish peace process and needs its funding from the north reinstated, say Noel Purdy and Maria Campbell
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Georgia’s medical education industry needs careful monitoring
The competition among 20 Georgian institutions for international medical students raises a host of quality concerns, says Michèle Wera