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Research intelligence: how to get more from academic conferences
Be kind, be constructive and go easy on the free booze, conference veterans advise new and returning attendees
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Has university governance lost touch with academic reality?
Recent controversies in Australia over vice-chancellors’ pay, Ramsay Centre funding and the role of academic presses have raised questions about whether university boards have too few – or, perhaps,...
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Heartbeats and spreadsheets: researching the psychology of the paranormal
Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater tell Matthew Reisz about the rare pleasures of teaching and researching belief in ghosts, alien abductions and conspiracy theories
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Minister restates opposition to student loan grade threshold
Chris Skidmore tells MPs he is yet to see a copy of the Augar review’s report
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London Met v-c: PM wants us to fail, but we’re not going anywhere
V-c who left school at 16 before entering university without A levels says university’s social mission is irreplaceable
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For-profits waiting as English regulator mulls register refusals
Office for Students has sent ‘minded to refuse’ letters to 20 providers
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Failure to support presses is a betrayal of the academic mission
Stanford University’s insistence that its press break even is another bleak milestone in corporatisation, says David Palumbo-Liu
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China fears could feed broader US clampdown on research sharing
Senator suggests that universities might want to keep more of their findings to themselves
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The university where half the professoriate ‘has never published’
Nepotism and the isolation of war have left Kosovo’s oldest university battling poor research standards, but transparency campaigners hope this is changing
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Mauro Ferrari to lead European Research Council from 2020
Nanomedicine pioneer will replace Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
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Australian campaigners demand open access step change
Advocacy groups demand action from next government
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Netherlands and Germany ‘most supportive’ of internationalisation
British Council research warns that Brexit ‘may affect future international engagement’ of the UK
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Universities told to refund half of fees over strike failings
Office of the Independent Adjudicator says some English and Welsh providers did not do enough for students when lecturers walked out over pensions
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Academics ‘should upload research contracts alongside papers’
Call follows revelations about Coca-Cola’s influence over some sponsored research