Next executive chair of UK’s EPSRC appointed
Lynn Gladden, Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge, to lead research council
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Social responsibility ‘can’t be forced’ on academics
Thailand’s education minister tells conference that a consensus is better for ensuring universities help local communities
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Stigma over higher education options ‘holds Syrian refugees back’
Session on how best to support refugees from Syria and elsewhere hears evidence that more vocational options are needed
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Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2018
Tributes paid to a university leader who ‘always believed firmly in what women could do’
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UK universities and students back clearer guidance on free speech
Minister plans to simplify ‘dizzying variety’ of rules on freedom of expression
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Sajid Javid: could he reshape UK’s overseas student regime?
MAC report on impact of international students will be ‘hard to ignore’ for new home secretary
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Australian National University eyes role in new space agency
Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget
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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Csiszar
Many issues that vex scholarly publishing today were there at the start, says Geoffrey Cantor
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The week in higher education – 3 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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UK and Europe ‘must join forces’ on AI research despite Brexit
UK expertise pulls far ahead of Europe in terms of output, but collaboration will be vital if sectors are to remain competitive with US and Asia, experts say
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Anonymous student feedback not so anonymous, lecturer warns
Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic
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Interview with Hilary Mantel
The Booker prizewinning author talks about novelists and academic historians’ ‘complementary trades’, ‘less subtle’ scholars and studying for a lifetime
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THE Awards 2018: open for entries
Submissions invited across 18 categories
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Athena SWAN is an ugly duckling
Schemes asking us to transform our workplaces in the name of equality, diversity and inclusivity are failing. It’s time to hold our institutions to account, says Rebecca Harrison