Academic workload models: a tool to exploit staff and cut costs?
Survey reveals many staff in UK universities are sceptical about the value of workload models
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Oxford under fire over Zimbabwe finance minister’s professorship
Academics call on university to denounce Mthuli Ncube after violent repression of protests
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Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite
Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer
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Foreign academics ‘less likely’ to speak up for academic freedom
Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’
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What will the Duchess of Sussex mean for global higher education?
Academics assess the impact Meghan Markle may have in her new role as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities
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Australian universities trial ‘respectful relationships’ training
Four institutions to pilot online module next year
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Hundreds of universities submit data for impact ranking
Japan leads on number of submissions but institutions across 75 countries have taken part
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Australian international education revenues up 15 per cent
But flagging Chinese applications could dampen future growth
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Universities urged to rule out submitting redundant staff to REF
Birkbeck is first institution to say it does not want to take credit for work of academics who left on bad terms
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Victoria Bateman: does getting naked help stop Brexit?
Cambridge economist uses nudity to make the case against the UK leaving the European Union and for ‘my body, my choice’
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US universities fall in behind China security warnings
Researchers participating in China’s Thousand Talents initiative – aimed at luring scientists back home – urged to quit
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Science is calling out for nonconformists
Academic status quo stymies the radical thought that leads to scientific breakthroughs, says Daniel Bojar
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Cambridge receives £100 million donation for PhDs and access
Gift from the David and Claudia Harding Foundation is the biggest single donation made to a UK university by a British philanthropist
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ANU v-c attacks ‘terrible’ Australian admissions system
Brian Schmidt says system of last-minute offers persists because it is ‘easy’ for universities
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Degree apprenticeships: let’s not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Especially in partnership with small-and-medium-sized enterprises, degree apprenticeships can help the deliver the skills that the UK's post-Brexit economy will need, says Tim Quine