Buckingham chair resigns after ‘losing confidence’ in v-c
‘Anyone who thinks the university is in good shape is deluded,’ says former Morgan Stanley executive in resignation letter
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‘Very good’ visa processing gives UK edge with overseas students
Survey results ‘show significant differences’ in performance of major student destination countries amid high demand for student visas
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Labour rights are not the solution to PhD exploitation
The doctorate must remain an apprenticeship. Better to cut PhD students’ teaching load by hiring more teaching staff, says Ruth Machen
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Student evaluations show gender bias even in most equal country
Male students at university in Iceland tended to rate their female teachers lower than male counterparts in both teaching and course organisation
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Kathleen Folbigg: expertise on trial over notorious child deaths
Case of Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ highlights tensions between justice, science and courts’ need to distinguish between world experts and ‘proven performers’
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Data is a flawed guide to student preferences and performance
Agency and incomplete information imperil data-driven assumptions about how to personalise teaching and learning, say Kate Ames and Colin Beer
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Pandemic doctoral starters ‘need more than extensions’
Royal Netherlands Academy says extra funding and time cannot ‘truly compensate’ those who began their research careers in lockdown
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Digital humanities needs equality between humanists and technicians
The perception of technicians as non-intellectual workers contributes to the undervaluing of technical career paths, says Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
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Freeman ‘happy’ to return to science minister post under Johnson
Science sector ‘needs ministerial leadership’, says MP who resigned barely 24 hours earlier
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Queen Mary head threatens to close course over marking boycott
Principal says institution not able to ‘take new students onto programmes where staff refuse to deliver the promised education’
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Laval suspensions fuel Canadian free speech debates
Professors sanctioned for vaccine discussions as politicians seen gearing up for US-style assault on academic rights
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‘Do it all’ culture ‘driving great resignation’ in academia
Coursera co-founder warns that faculty are ‘burning the candle at multiple ends’
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Up to 250 jobs set to go as university mothballs arts courses
Scale of redundancies and resignations announced by Wolverhampton far surpasses figure previously expected
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New legislation may not be enough to police China research links
Boosting individual academics' awareness of the risks of collaboration in certain areas is also crucial, says Fiona Quimbre
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No one is immune
Precarity is a debilitating condition that often proves fatal to research careers. And it affects even the most lauded research groups