THE Awards 2022: winners announced
Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured at ‘Oscars of higher education’
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Myanmar frees jailed Australian academic Sean Turnell
Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges
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UK universities ‘systematically underpaying staff for years’
Sector leaders acknowledge long-term problems with pay and say now is the time to resolve them after union promises strikes
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THE Awards 2022: winners booklet digital edition
Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured among 20 categories covering the full range of university activities
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Hunt recommits to UK spending £20 billion on research by 2024
Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors
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UK offshore enrolment now over half-million mark
UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year
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World ‘going backwards’ on equal access to higher education
Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met
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Taliban’s call for academics to return met with scepticism
Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia
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Women outnumber men on UK PhDs for first time
Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers
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THE leaders survey 2022: Navigating geopolitical tensions
Rising tensions between the West and China and Russia are being seen as an indication that internationalisation may have passed its peak. But are universities, as pre-eminently international...
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The US’ new open access mandate must not line the pockets of grifters
Greater efforts need to be made to distinguish predatory journals from those that at least aspire to scholarly standards, says Harvey Graff
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Sector ‘must take initiative’ in managing scientific exchange
Don’t wait for governments to act, say university leaders
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Lifelong learning plans ‘must be broader and more generous’
Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect
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Give policymakers information they can’t ignore, academics told
Difficult decisions require uncomfortable truths, epidemiologist tells Pacific Rim universities
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‘Look harder’ on efficiency, UUK president urges sector
Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding