Biden pitches value of career-focused teaching
With data showing better post-secondary pathway, administration wants more job-oriented course offerings
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Liberal arts colleges need to better connect with their students
A large new survey gives the lie to the idea that liberal arts colleges are more responsive to students’ needs than universities are, notes Samuel Abrams
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Five more days of strike action this month in UK sector disputes
University and College Union members will again walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions
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Australian campuses remain closed as new floods threaten
Storms, flash floods and emergency services effort force students back online
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Dutch universities freeze Russia relations over Ukraine war
Research and education partnerships, participation in events and peer review all put on hold after appeal from ministry
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Berkeley enrolment cut set to go ahead after top court defeat
With relief now unlikely before this month’s autumn admissions offers, top US campus talks of online and deferred acceptances
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Ukraine crisis: a message from THE’s chief executive
Company expresses solidarity with Ukrainian people and announces steps in response to invasion
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Australian bill to end grant vetoes ‘unlikely to pass parliament’
While most submissions support legislation to end ministerial veto rights, some urge middle ground approach
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Chinese funders ‘must act in concert’ to curb research misconduct
Agencies must agree on ‘demarcation line’ for questionable behaviour and mete out consistent punishment, Science paper says
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OfS chair defends tycoon amid ‘Russian-linked’ funding scrutiny
Tory peer Lord Wharton ‘disgusted’ by ‘attacks’ on Ukrainian-born energy tycoon, whose firm he has advised and who donated to him as MP
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‘I can’t tell my son when I’ll see him’: academic life in Ukraine
Ukrainian professor turned politician Inna Sovsun on coordinating student resistance and why international scholars must boycott Russia
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Fear of being cancelled is the enemy of progress
The furore over the John Comaroff letter means discussions that could boost understanding of sexual harassment won’t occur, says Jonathan Zimmerman
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Australian National University cuts ties with Russia
Invasion of Ukraine ‘threatens the peace, freedom and democracy on which freedom of inquiry and academic collaboration is based’
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New strike ballot at Queen Mary over ‘brutal’ pay deductions
University refuses to pay staff who have returned to work until they reschedule lectures lost to last round of walkouts
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Two in five live under ‘significant decline’ in academic freedom
Global index links downward trend over the past decade to accelerating and deepening decline in democracy