‘No educational advantage’ from gruelling intern shifts
While supervisors say protracted shifts are a crucial part of medical education, new research finds no benefit
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Ex-minister sceptical of English higher education funding review
Lord Willetts warns mooted reforms of student finance system could backfire politically
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Time to end bias against academia’s female entrepreneurs
Female under-representation in spin-offs is likely to be attributable to the usual suspects: gender bias, lack of appropriate support and limited access to the right networks, says Simonetta Manfredi
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MPs call for early deal on UK-Europe science links post-Brexit
Research collaboration ‘should be as important to the government as security’ and should not be a ‘knock-on consequence of other negotiations’, says report
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University groups push for doubling of EU research budget
Increasing Framework Programme 9 backing to €160 billion (£139.7 billion) would create 650,000 jobs by 2030, says open letter
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Initiative secures Palestinians places at top universities
Teenagers have completed three-year programme of after-school tuition
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Humboldtian ideal: German university goes family-friendly
The world’s first research university offers to take care of those with caring responsibilities
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Russian students ‘threatened with expulsion’ for not voting
Taped recording of a university lecturer threatening students is viewed more than 80,000 times
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Play skewers scepticism about affirmative action in universities
Critical acclaim for Admissions, about the experience of a white student and a black student applying to Yale University
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‘Genie out of the bottle’ on casualisation after pension strikes
Industrial action at UK universities a ‘seminal moment’, say academics
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Super-agency the ‘go-to for how-to’ in English higher education
Advance HE will be a supportive friend to higher education as England’s new regulator gets tough, explains chief executive Alison Johns
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Essay mill’s claims misleading, says advertising watchdog
UK Essays said that its ghostwritten papers provided a ‘guaranteed grade, every time’