Status anxiety
Hell hath no fury like a professional deprofessionalised by ambitious, managerial, neoliberal, corporate, robotic order-followers ( “Hell hath no fury like an academic suspended” , Opinion, 8...
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California’s drought
On reading “US state systems freeze tuition fees as enrolment falters” (News, 8 February), my thoughts turned to California. For 100 years (from 1868 to 1967), the state’s taxpayers funded the zero-...
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Forever young
In the biographical sketch of Kori Schake, the author of Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony ( “When Britannia waived its rule” , Books, 8 February), Matthew Reisz writes...
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THE to launch new innovation ranking
League table may include metrics on university spin-off companies and research publications co-authored with industry
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£6K fees ‘could leave English universities £3.3 billion poorer’
Lower sticker price for degrees would do nothing to help poorer students, says London Economics analysis
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Colombian students stage miniskirt protest over ‘sexist’ advice
Pontifical Bolivarian University told students not to ‘distract’ classmates and teachers with low necklines, short skirts or tight-fitting clothes
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Israel approves West Bank settlement university law
New legislation will extend Israeli law to academic institutions in the West Bank
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Senior Nasa scientist jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges
US Department of State ‘deeply concerned’ over lack of evidence against Serkan Gölge
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European universities fight to save rare subjects
Rare disciplines face a multitude of threats but are key to the biodiversity of academia, advocates say
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Funding taken away from PhD student after cancer diagnosis
Claudia Pama launches campaign calling on research bodies to introduce proper sick pay provision
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Judge attacks professor’s ‘flawed and irresponsible’ evidence
Australian academic accused of copying statements from Wikipedia and other journal articles without attribution in court