What if the best way to widen access is to produce more schoolteachers?
Encouraging graduates into teaching would bring a ready-made army of advocates for university study into daily contact with pupils, says Jane White
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Social security eligibility rules ‘forcing students out’
Inconsistent policy settings dislodging ‘financially constrained’ Australians from university study
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Iraq since the invasion: how has higher education fared?
Academics inside and outside the country describe fluctuations faced by Iraqi universities over past two decades
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AI is a wake-up call for those doing scholarship by numbers
ChatGPT must compel humanities scholars to rethink their acceptance of intellectual mediocrity and lax standards, says James Walker
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Israel crisis: university presidents ‘ready to strike again or sue’
Campus shutdowns paused, as Haifa president says fragmented education is partly to blame for constitutional crisis
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Nearly 20,000 students withdraw from UK courses
Westminster government warned that number of dropouts will continue to rise if it does not increase maintenance loans
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‘Final warning’ for Afghan students unable to return to India
Afghan students find Indian universities continue to expect their physical presence, despite lack of visas
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Record losses at Australian universities
The bigger they are, the harder they fall, as financial market pendulum swings back
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There’s life outside academia – and my friends have found it
Constant rejections for academic jobs took a bigger emotional toll than anything they encountered during their PhDs, says Michelle de Souza
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UK science ‘smashed‘ by US and China in priority areas
Britain’s claims to ‘science superpower’ status look shaky as it is being outperformed by smaller nations on top-rated papers, says study lead
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Degree apprenticeships to get £40 million funding boost
Education secretary directs OfS to create ‘competitive degree apprenticeship development fund’ in England
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The week in higher education – 30 March 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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OfS takes England’s quality role after QAA delisted
England’s higher education regulator takes on quality scrutiny role after Quality Assurance Agency steps back
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Interview with Melek Ortabasi
Literature scholar talks about life in Japan and being an academic single mother