Drive to improve university civic engagement wins £3.7 million
Sheffield Hallam to develop new framework assessing English higher education institutions’ community development activities
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Share ‘Plan B’ research funding more fairly than Horizon – paper
Alternative to Horizon Europe should examine why ‘closed clubs’ of elite universities enjoy so much funding success, says Hepi report
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Being working class holds back our careers, say UK academics
Union’s survey finds majority feels social class determines career progression in higher education
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I’m a doctor and I don’t want my student debt forgiven
US college debt cancellation ought to be restricted by income and profession, says Abraham Nussbaum
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USS chief executive Bill Galvin to step down next year
Head of UK higher education’s biggest pension scheme to depart once successor is appointed
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Chevening scholars call on UK to reinstate Afghan programme
Closure mirrored US government decision to suspend Fulbright programme to Afghanistan, which it subsequently reversed
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University of Idaho warns staff against giving abortion advice
Campus cites 2021 state law in telling all employees not to promote abortion, while state’s other large institution suggests pointing students to outside counsellors
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New UK-Africa partnerships confront science’s ‘colonial legacy’
New wave of funding schemes aims to counter ‘parachute research’ and brain drain
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‘Oligarchy’ claims as Romania set to abolish rectors’ term limits
Government also set to introduce effective amnesty on doctoral plagiarism and loosen rules on candidates’ relatives from serving on hiring and promotion committees
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Chinese graduates lose taste for entrepreneurship
University leavers becoming ‘more rational’ as country’s economy cools
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OfS seeks collaboration, not intervention, in access reboot
Hitting targets ‘not the be-all and end-all’, John Blake tells THE, as national risk register for higher education participation planned
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The West must recognise unofficial degrees from authoritarian countries
Victims of oppression often have to study informally; they should not be barred from pursuing an overseas master’s, say Natasha Robinson and David Mills
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Andrea Jenkyns confirmed as minister covering higher education
Minister’s title no longer includes ‘higher education’ and responsibilities no longer include ‘universities and higher education reform’
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Australia to redraw its science priorities
Bigger focus flagged on Indigenous knowledge, climate science and critical technologies
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Talking leadership 43: Ana Mari Cauce on promoting interdisciplinarity
The University of Washington leader discusses bridging subject-level siloes, and how academic science can better serve society