OfS urges English elite to go further on contextual admissions
Regulator suggests that most selective universities could admit students with grades BCC at A level without a marked fall in academic standards
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The missing men: Iceland struggles with campus deficit
At the University of Iceland, female students outnumber men by two to one. But among professors, the ratio is the reverse
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Plan S architect reflects on US ‘disappointment’ and global hope
Robert-Jan Smits looks back on open access initiative ‘roller coaster’ after swapping European Commission for Eindhoven’s ‘booming’ innovation ‘ecosystem’
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Experimental colleges: an idea whose time has passed?
Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector
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There is no freedom of speech crisis on Australian campuses
The country’s recent judge-led review is another instance of the global misperception of institutional censorship, say Ian Jacobs and Susan Dodds
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Australian PhD students target careers outside academia
Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability
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Elite pair take half of New Zealand’s competitive research cash
Research agency stresses workforce risk in low number of emerging researchers
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Jo Johnson: post-study work visa amendment has ‘very good’ chance
Architects of amendment to immigration bill urge Prime Minister Theresa May to ‘embrace’ liberalisation of student immigration regime
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Cambridge to probe historical links to slave trade
Two-year study will help university assess how it may have benefited financially as well as how its scholars contributed to race-based thinking
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UK universities focus on fundraising as policy uncertainty grows
Institutions in the UK and Ireland raised £1.08 billion in 2017-18, up from £979 million the previous year
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Cape Town reconciliation commission fails to heal protest wounds
Report warns that racism persists in South Africa’s leading university, but it has attracted criticism
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THE Asia University Rankings 2019 table information
Key statistics The data shown under key statistics is that provided by the university itself in its submission to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It represents data from the...
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Lawyers should not be the judges of academic responsibility
Publishers’ terror of libel law and focus on their profit margins have made them excessively risk-averse, says Stuart Macdonald
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Early career productivity ‘linked to workplace, not training’
Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ‘prestige’ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce