Acronym acrimony: glut of abbreviations ‘hindering understanding’
Australian analysis finds acronym use has multiplied tenfold in abstracts, with 94 per cent of 17,500 possible three-letter combinations used at least once
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How much should A-level grades decide university admissions?
The A-level grading fiasco has highlighted the limitations of using exam results to assess undergraduate preparedness, says Suleiman M. Sharkh
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A levels: are students really ‘trading up’ to selective universities?
Some predict lower-tariff institutions will not necessarily be the ones to lose out, while there is also hope that crisis may curtail negative political narrative around HE
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University teaching should stay remote, says Independent Sage
Group of prominent UK scientists warns that the risk of infection is too high for in-person teaching
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Returning Chinese scholars ‘marginalised’ at home and abroad
Chinese academics coming home from overseas should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says
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‘More scrutiny needed’ on Chinese talent recruitment
Australian thinktank tracks sharp increase in overseas recruitment stations and warns of links to covert activities
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Stigma of leaving creative industries is harming careers of arts graduates
Dread of ‘selling out’ and heroic figure of ‘struggling artist’ cause many creative arts graduates to persist with dead-end jobs rather than maximising their skills in alternative careers, says...
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Sydney hoses down speculation of job losses in the thousands
Australian university insists it is just planning for potential scenarios, amid claims that 3,000 jobs are at risk
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Australian ministers’ radical fee reform creates storm of uncertainty
Different scenarios for legislative progress force universities to plan for range of outcomes
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny
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Government agrees to fund extra medical places in England
Numbers caps lifted for medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and teacher training courses in wake of A-levels fiasco
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THE Impact Rankings 2021: registration is now open
Universities around the world can now participate in the third edition of our rankings based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Australian overseas mobility programme heads online
New guidelines offer fresh hope for veteran Indonesia studies scheme that was facing closure because of Covid impact on overseas travel
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Is the coronavirus undermining the intellectual foundations of the university?
Universities and their values have been hugely successful in forging a central place for themselves at the heart of the information age. David John Frank and John W. Meyer consider how and why the...
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Christine Humfrey, 1947-2020
Tributes paid to pioneer who was ‘pivotal in changing the way UK higher education thought about internationalisation’