Temple’s first black president quits
Jason Wingard agrees to leave after less than two years in charge
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Idaho president finds bigger job under partisan fire
As fierce partisanship silences US academics, a fired leader gets an even bigger job that rewards his resistance
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Vienna, 1938: was this the worst faculty meeting ever?
An image of massed ranks of anatomy faculty giving the Nazi salute is a reminder that academics are not immune to extremism, says Jonathan LeoÂ
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Syrian academics back in classroom despite earthquake carnage
Council for At-Risk Academics is fundraising to help displaced academics continue teaching
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‘Root and branch review’ of funding needed, says Oxford v-c
Irene Tracey warns that ‘everybody is suffering’ under the current model
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Delhi university’s punishment of students over Modi doc ‘chilling’
Administrators take ‘very clever’ strategy to ‘divide’ students by disciplining two of them harshly while letting others go, scholar says
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Universities ‘afraid to get blacklisted’ by funders avoid China collaborations
US administrators wary of losing millions in government funding over risky China ties, scholars say
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Anthony Fauci’s vilification ‘deterring potential NIH leaders’
Hate campaign directed towards America’s chief pandemic scientist makes it harder to find permanent leader for world’s biggest research funder
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Why are we allowing faculty ‘whips’ to do university managers’ dirty work?
Senior faculty are trying to prove their worth by making the lives of others so unpleasant that they agree to leave. It is time to call them out, says Aymen Idris
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Universities ‘not good change agents’
Australia’s underwhelming success in making university enrolments more equitable underlines the need to ‘address schooling’, forum hears
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German postdoc reforms paused after outcry at research careers plan
Attempt to balance interests of employers and researchers pleases no one, and weekend Twitter storm forces the plan ‘back to the assembly hall’
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Former Greenwich v-c David Maguire to lead UEA
Veteran university president appointed to lead Norwich institution through ‘period of change’
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Announcing our new Arab University Rankings advisory board
The THEÂ Arab University Rankings advisory board launches with members from countries across the region
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Relief as Australia issues PhD visas
While scores of doctoral students have at long last received permission to travel Down Under, the waiting list is long
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Employability ‘mantra’ supplanting higher education’s ‘inner core’
Focus on jobs and commercialisation inconsistent with sector’s ‘intrinsic purposes’, says Simon Marginson