New Sino-Irish college of engineering launches
Joint venture will be second undergraduate collaboration between universities in China and Ireland
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Harvard trial spotlight shifts to alumni admissions advantages
If he had chosen to pursue the biggest factor in Harvard’s admissions discrimination – preferences for the white and wealthy – Michael Wang would have faced obstacles from alumni and the law alike
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‘Equivalence’ claims ridiculed in branch campus row
We can’t deliver equivalent teaching with less preparation time and resources, RMIT academics say
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MPs propose fines for universities that fail to report trials
Sponsors that do not meet rules should have ethical approval for future experiments withheld, says Science and Technology Committee
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Some questions for Simon Birmingham, from two researchers whose grant he quashed
Research-funding decision processes and rejections should be open and transparent, but this time they weren’t, say Libby Lester and Brett Hutchins
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Mexican university suspends classes after students targeted
University of Guerrero rector seeks support from military police after six violent attempts to abduct women are reported on campus
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Pilots of £6m anti-cheating tool report successful results
EU-backed project using facial-, voice- and keystroke-identification technology enters final stages
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Will Taiwan’s growing diplomatic isolation harm higher education?
Scholar says Western students may be more reluctant to study in Taiwan, but others question China’s influence on overseas student flows
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The steps universities must take to secure peace and reconciliation
Higher education can play a lead role in mending past injustices in innovative and sustainable ways, says Joanna Newman
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Universities warned that EU can’t save them from populists
Authoritarian populist governments prevent bloc from taking action to protect academic freedom, say scholars
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Australia: outreach cuts blamed as demand plunges
Applications and offers tumble for the first time this decade
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Harvard’s Allston expansion ‘the next great innovation centre’
After stockpiling land for decades, leading US university plans $1 billion (£774 million) science complex
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Reality check: universities and free speech
Universities have told the BBC that all is well as far as free speech is concerned. Then again, they would say that, wouldn’t they? argue Dennis Hayes and Bryn Harris
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Bin the prospectus: vice-provost streamlines Singapore university
NUS vice-provost on crusade against built-in obsolescence