Sussex reaps REF rewards from Kathleen Stock’s trans research
Analysis suggests philosophy professor’s old department may net as much as £333,000 from the activities that saw her targeted by activists
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Student enrolment boom seen in Australian census ‘already gone’
While Covid may have ushered record numbers of Australians to university, a chipper labour market is luring them away again
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There is still more to learn from Pride
As Pride Month draws to a close, Nick Braisby reflects on what it means to him
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UK pledges extra £10 million to help Ukrainian researchers
Expanded government support will fund two-year research fellowships for 130 Ukrainian academics, says science minister
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Closing our English literature degree is not an attack on the humanities
We distract from the debate on the importance of the arts if we don’t review and re-energise our humanities offerings, says Chris Husbands
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Recruitment reforms urged to curb French ‘moustache positions’
Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide
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Will China ever recover its international student flows?
Higher education analysts mull China’s continued attractiveness as a student destination amid its zero-Covid policy and scant foreign student returnees
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US abortion ruling ‘another blow’ to women’s educational chances
Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare
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Repression or ‘polite reticence’? Unpacking self-censorship
Dearth of data undermines understanding of cancel culture and other campus codes of silence
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Talking leadership 32: John Cater on being UK HE’s longest-serving leader
The vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University discusses centralising spending, climbing up the rankings and leading the institution for almost 30 years
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Our study shows multidisciplinarity is a risky career move
The higher their performance, the more interdisciplinary scientists are penalised by colleagues as a threat to the status quo, find four researchers
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Donelan tells universities to consider leaving equality schemes
English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech
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English regulator paid £80K to ‘terminate’ access chief’s role
Office for Students accounts also confirm £915,000 payment to for-profit college that successfully challenged refusal of registration in court
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US admissions scandal trial win tied to university complicity
Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt
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Will Labour commit to a graduate tax in England?
Starmer also expected to consider ‘fudge’ manifesto pledge to review university funding, with party set to drop Corbyn-era policy