Australia: outreach cuts blamed as demand plunges
Applications and offers tumble for the first time this decade
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Harvard’s Allston expansion ‘the next great innovation centre’
After stockpiling land for decades, leading US university plans $1 billion (£774 million) science complex
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Reality check: universities and free speech
Universities have told the BBC that all is well as far as free speech is concerned. Then again, they would say that, wouldn’t they? argue Dennis Hayes and Bryn Harris
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Bin the prospectus: vice-provost streamlines Singapore university
NUS vice-provost on crusade against built-in obsolescence
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Winners, winners everywhere, or so it appears
An artificial winning mindset has permeated UK higher education, says Peter Larcombe
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THE podcast: Plan ‘S’ for squelch?
Is Science Europe’s Plan S the solution to open access research?
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Australian ministers claim public support for vetoing research
Storm of protest across academia against Simon Birmingham's scuttling of humanities grants worth A$4.2 million (£2.3 million)
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Reshaped Supreme Court casts long shadow over Harvard trial
Win or lose, Harvard may need to ask whether pursuing its affirmative action case all the way to the Supreme Court is in the best overall interest of US higher education
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More Japanese universities face admissions discrimination claims
Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women
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Universities’ Saudi ties under scrutiny after Khashoggi killing
Experts say Western institutions and academics have played a role in ‘supporting and perpetuating the Saudi regime’
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UK universities and firms call for part-time study funding reform
UUK and CBI back transformation of apprenticeship levy into ‘skills levy’
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Letters – 25 October 2018
Just how will viva rule change help women? Your story “PhD viva rule is ‘unfair on female academics’” (News, 18 October) reports that the University of Glasgow will insist that female PhD candidates...
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Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 25 October 2018
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