Caution: heavy load
The findings reported in the article “Even top teachers ‘not recognised or compensated’, warns research” (News, 22 December) – that top teachers at research-intensive universities don’t see their...
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Repaid to Scotland
The negative picture of Scottish higher education painted in the feature “Can Scotland carry on with its free-tuition policy?” (15 December) is simply unrecognisable. Free tuition has been a...
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A social solution
Sometimes the solution to our problems is just staring us in the face. Helen Lees’ article “The media are the gatekeepers of impact, and they are doing a bad job” (Opinion, 13 November) is a case in...
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Out of the picture
I read with interest your article “Male scientists ‘outnumber women 3:1’ in school textbooks” (News, 8 December). This issue is also relevant to the study of the arts, an issue that my PhD has...
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Grant winners – 5 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Japan’s universities turn to hospitals for financial pain relief
This graph shows that Japan’s top-ranked universities now rely on their hospitals for about 40 per cent of their income as they struggle with deep cuts in government spending.
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Gender issues: brand new year, same old problems
Dame Athene Donald laments the lack of progress on gender issues
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Taiwanese courses unfilled as birth crisis bites
Education Ministry statistics reveal programmes that have attracted zero students
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US university introduces gender pronoun badges
University of Kansas libraries create badges to help staff and students feel more welcome
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Female academics not breaking Dutch glass ceiling
Report bemoans ‘ruthlessly thick’ glass ceiling on route to professorships
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Birkbeck head investigated again over research
David Latchman’s work to be subject of new inquiry after he was cleared in 2015