Residential courses should still have a home in university programming
Off-campus trips have manifold benefits, especially for poorer students. We mustn’t lose them to technology or cost-cutting, says Robert Phillips
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Cambridge votes to retain controversial retirement policy
Age at which academic staff forced to leave the university to increase from 67 to 69
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Strikes threatened as Portsmouth ‘takes new staff out of TPS’
UCU accuses university of creating ‘two-tier workforce’ by employing people through a subsidiary company to prevent access to expensive scheme
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Five universities hit with OfS improvement notices
Office for Students highlights issues with continuation and completion rates as well as graduate outcomes at range of institutions
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Students who live closer to campus get better grades, study finds
Benefits of having a shorter commute diminish beyond 15- to 20-minute mark, mirroring findings of ‘15-minute city’ movement
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The unlikely battle over research at the Olympic Games
Sports scientists are working with athletes to enhance performance and safeguarding ahead of this year’s Paris games, but on-the-ground research is a hotly debated subject
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Australian R&D spend ‘heading for 1980s levels’
Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed
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Assessment and curriculum design can’t ignore how students use AI
Instead of viewing GenAI only as a threat, we should embrace it as an opportunity to reform our outdated approaches, says Dorottya Sallai
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Phillipson to respond to university funding crisis this week
Education secretary to update parliament amid reports of three institutions heading close to bankruptcy
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Goldsmiths under siege: can a once-radical university survive?
College says latest round of cuts will secure its future but academics wonder whether much of what made the institution special will be left
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Paris university ‘among first’ private Greek branch campuses
Sorbonne Paris North University to transform existing college partnership into non-profit university following passing of March law allowing private institutions
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Indian university rejects teaching ‘unconstitutional’ Hindu text
National Education Policy prioritises Indian knowledge, but many are against embedding certain historical documents into the curriculum
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Banning lecture capture would not free students from loneliness
We should not deprive numerous hard-pressed students of valuable flexibility merely to ensure that the ‘undeserving’ don’t skip classes, say five experts
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Focus on intersectionality won’t close the UK’s degree-awarding gaps
While there are ethnic, class and gender penalties, Sean Brophy found no evidence of an extra penalty for falling into more than one category