Career advice: how to be a graduate teaching assistant
Leading a university seminar for the first time can be an intimidating prospect. Here, three PhD students offer some advice for those preparing for the new academic year
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UK and EU urged to strike deal on mutual student fee arrangements
Mobile students would face same costs as local learners post-Brexit under MillionPlus proposal
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Executive pay packages top £1 million at UK student housing firm
Pay deals in student accommodation bring claims ‘huge salaries are being funded by public money and student debt’
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Multimillion-pound grant for footballers’ ‘university’ criticised
Funding will support Lancaster to develop curriculum for Manchester-based University Academy 92
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The week in higher education – 26 July 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Look ‘down under’ for sense on European student fees
There’s no better way for the UK to show its collegial spirit to the EU than through a commitment to student mobility, similar to what Australia and New Zealand enjoy, says David Phoenix
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Pakistan’s students and teachers need lectures in love
Pakistani lecturers and students tend to be similar in age, which makes romances inevitable. Universities must do more to raise awareness of the potential fallout of such relationships, say Abur...
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Environmental scientists must learn the language of literature
Seekers of dispassionate truth may be irritated by the moral passion of the likes of Dostoevsky, Zola and Chekhov, but it is a much stronger influence on public opinion, says David Aberbach
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Shutting down trolls is bad politics
Telling opponents of liberal values to ‘jog on’ may be tempting, but it risks confirming opponents’ claims that universities are aloof bastions of leftism, says Julie Odams
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Keep off the Brexit barricades
Partisan social media posts typically get more attention, but dispassionate analyses are what academics are valued for, says Stuart Brown
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Vice-principal quits in protest at failure to punish colleagues
Paul Hagan says Robert Gordon University principal and fellow deputy should have been sanctioned for failing to declare conflict of interest
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USS announces increases in higher education pension contributions
University and staff payments set to increase even though Joint Expert Panel is yet to report
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NUI Galway lecturers promoted after gender discrimination row
Four women settle legal action against university over 2008-09 promotion round
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South African university drops gender titles in student correspondence
The University of the Witwatersrand will not use ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’ in official communications
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Predatory publishers probe snares prominent academics
Investigation discovers 400,000 researchers worldwide have used ‘pseudoscientific’ journals