Most summer school students ‘already want to go to university’
Commonly used widening participation initiative not targeting those who would benefit most from such schemes, study finds
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Rosa Freedman: REF impact rules ‘unfair on researchers’
Human rights expert claims ‘inaccurate’ impact submission written on her work by old employer highlights why funding rules should change
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US suspends Fulbright-Hays foreign-language penalty
Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees – for now – that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery
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Short-sighted measures of graduate success are good for no one
Graduate careers are long and pay varies by region – so why measure course value on graduate salaries 15 months in, asks Neal Juster
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English regulator to push ahead with numerical ‘quality’ measures
OfS to introduce new quality condition, including proportion of graduates securing ‘managerial or professional employment’, in October
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Australian universities ‘lose social licence’ in overseas cash push
Swinburne v-c lambasts sector for following English model, but Monash head puts international education on par with key resource exports
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Paris-Saclay president aims for global profile
After predecessor exits to become higher education minister, Estelle Iacona is tasked with completing integration of ambitious, elite amalgam
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Talking leadership 36: Joël Mesot on having a fruitful dialogue with society
ETH Zurich president discusses building public trust in science, supporting apprenticeship schemes and a downside of Einstein’s legacy
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Regional universities hit hardest as Danish applications drop 11 per cent
‘Generation lockdown’ wanting a break from the books blamed for steep decrease as high employment rate lures some away from study
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Canada’s universities tackle false claims of Indigenous identities
Difficulties defining who has indigenous heritage complicates efforts to stop some profiting from made-up affiliations
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The best scholarship is political but with no ideological stamp
The idea that revisionism is something to be ashamed of harks back to a mythical golden age of classics, canons and objective truth, says Harvey Graff
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USS posts ‘robust’ accounts but members lose faith over cuts
Only 17 per cent of those enrolled in UK’s largest higher education pension scheme reported positive relationship after changes to retirement benefits
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Can army of new managers help HE tackle big social challenges?
Spate of new senior roles created as universities seek answers on addressing sustainability, diversity and social responsibility
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GDPR should not prevent reporting on complaints, universities told
Blanket policies restricting even the victims being told about the outcome of complaints should be scrapped, report finds
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EU commits to big to-do list for long-awaited research area
Fears that resources will be spread too thinly as ministries and research organisations back majority of possible priorities for the scheme