China: lure of homeland ‘no simple choice’ for expat academics
Personal and pragmatic factors often keep Chinese academics in the West
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White House asks universities for advice on foreign students
Unusual invitation by top administration officials suggests corporate pressure on Trump over immigrants
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Leeds pulls advert for ‘exploitative’ research assistant job
Academics say ‘personal assistant’ position highlights precarity faced by early career scholars
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Monash mulls ‘research-focused’ Indonesian branch campus
Vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner confirms university is considering opening outpost following signing of free trade agreement
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£1.3 billion Turnitin sale spotlights intellectual property fears
Huge price tag demonstrates power of plagiarism-checking company
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Royal Statistical Society: the TEF should have a health warning
Royal Statistical Society vice-president Guy Nason explains why it has taken the unusual step of reporting the Teaching Excellence Framework to the UK’s statistics watchdog
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University careers fairs are failing black students
Cage Boons explains why he and other University of Hertfordshire students decided to run their own careers fair for ethnic minority undergraduates
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‘Sea change’ raises tide of Australian university fundraising
Institutions’ philanthropy heads lift their sights as campaigns exceed expectations
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We can do more to fix vocational education’s image problem
Degree apprenticeships are helping to alter perceptions of earn-as-you-learn courses, but universities must demonstrate their value to students and employers, says Jane Turner
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Trump free speech threat contradicts facts, allies and himself
US president’s vow to tie research funds to unfettered campus debate is short on details and advocates
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Warning over ‘biased results’ of industry-funded research
Europe-wide temperature check of university-business interactions unearths concerns over loss of curiosity-led research
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Botched email reveals names of university staff facing redundancy
Winchester apologises after putting address details in ‘to’ or ‘cc’ fields, not ‘bcc’
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Reading staff blame languages cuts on ‘misguided vanity projects’
Staff hit out at ‘financial mismanagement’ as university announces plans to cut roughly a third of modern languages jobs
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Restricting student loan access is a clumsy way to solve overrecruitment
Ministers are right to question student recruitment practices in some universities, but restricting loan access to those who fail to hit three Ds at A level would be a retrograde step, says Tom...
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Privileged students fill majority of degree apprenticeship places
Proportion of places taken by disadvantaged students shrinks as level of qualification rises