The darker side of the ‘smart’ university
New book raises concerns about how increasing digital surveillance on campuses reproduces racial and economic injustices
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Why JD Vance’s anti-university rhetoric is winning votes
It’s tempting to dismiss the Ohio senator’s attacks on higher education as MAGA rabble-rousing, but he is right in some respects, says Lincoln Allison
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Humanities cuts ‘harbinger’ of bleak future for Dutch sector
Area studies and languages at risk at Leiden University, with academics foreseeing humanities ‘apocalypse’
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Universities want collaboration on international student policies
Just 3 per cent of respondents to sector survey rated Ottawa government’s engagement with sector positively
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Ed Byrne: Western gloom over HE hasn’t pervaded Saudi optimism
New president of ‘Caltech of Middle East’ explains why Saudi belief in universities’ ability to transform society persuaded him to lead KAUST
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UK Budget day: Is that it?
Addressing the sector’s woes has, at best, been kicked down the road to next year’s spending review. How disappointing, says Nick Hillman
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Budget national insurance hike ‘costs universities £372 million’
Chancellor goes ahead with 1.2 percentage point increase, hiking staff costs for already cash-strapped institutions
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Blackman leaves Open University role early after cancer diagnosis
Vice-chancellor steps down after five years at the helm to focus on treatment
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Imperial launches new California tech hub
Highly ranked UK university sets up first physical presence on other side of the Atlantic
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Students ‘not using AI as much as academics think’
‘Over-regulation’ feared as actual use of new technologies lags far behind perceptions of university staff
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Disabled students are badly served by furore over ‘unfair’ accommodations
Misleading claims that some undergraduates are unjustly receiving extra help obscure how many universities are actually failing to provide sufficient support to disabled students, says Chris Pepin-...
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Labour’s first budget can help universities deliver regional impact
Devolving research and skills funding to metro mayors would allow universities to drive innovation-led economic growth, says Neal Juster
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Ian Boyd: policymaking ‘should be more experimental’
Researchers need to get politicians to focus on addressing underlying issues instead of short-term problems, according to former chief scientific adviser
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Online encyclopedia is alternative model for scholarly publishing
As pre-Wikipedia resource enters its 25th year, pioneers eye new applications as well as new languages
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Self-citations: are they good or bad?
Concerns around scholars using excessive self-citations are valid, but banning them entirely is not the right approach, says David Watkins