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18 June

Paris-Saclay crisis exposes cracks in mega-university project

By Emily Dixon

18 June

US universities ride revival of congressional earmark funding

18 June

Valorising academic mothers’ heroism just makes it the default expectation

We need, instead, to develop structures that allow everyone to flourish, both academically and as parents, says Eleanor Palser

By Eleanor Palser

18 June

Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season

17 June

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Computer science students must be taught to consider social effects

17 June

Impact Rankings 2024: universities make trustworthy stewards

Locale determines the mission of many universities, and the Impact Rankings recognise how such diversity and community-mindedness helps to further progress towards the SDGs

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18 June

US universities ride revival of congressional earmark funding

18 June

NIH hesitates on disability goal but takes on diversity critics

14 June

Private US college closures look to gain public attention

14 June

Paris-Saclay crisis exposes cracks in mega-university project

By Emily Dixon

18 June

University staff overwhelmingly back Labour – with reservations

18 June

Reform UK pledges undergraduate restrictions and visa changes

17 June

Staff at Nature journals ready for strike this week over pay

17 June

‘Stringent’ oversight needed for private PhDs in Bangladesh

By Helen Packer

15 June

GSDC: The architecture professor rebuilding flattened villages

14 June

GSDC: Training overseas-bound graduates ‘a net earner’

14 June

Taiwanese academics fear for future as more universities close

By Helen Packer

14 June

Chinese students ‘turned off Australia’ by visa crackdown

17 June

GSDC: ‘Publish over purpose’ culture undermines business schools

12 June

Australians cool on education and research ties with China

12 June

GSDC: ‘Cosmetic’ partnerships fail to deliver against crises

By John Gill

11 June

News

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University staff overwhelmingly back Labour – with reservations

Sir Keir Starmer’s party receives overwhelming backing in THE poll, despite concerns its vision for the sector lacks detail

18 June

Passer by looking at cracks in the road near Contz-les-Bains, Lorraine, France to illustrate Paris-Saclay crisis exposes cracks in mega-university project

Paris-Saclay crisis exposes cracks in mega-university project

Varying degrees of autonomy among constituent institutions has resulted in discontent, insiders say

By Emily Dixon

18 June

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US universities ride revival of congressional earmark funding

After decade-long suspension due to perceived overuse, federal budget set-asides by individual lawmakers again disproportionately bolstering academia and its science

18 June

US universities to improve protest policies after Gaza probes

18 June

Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season

17 June

Chinese students ‘turned off Australia’ by visa crackdown

17 June

Reform UK pledges undergraduate restrictions and visa changes

17 June

Put voter registration in student inductions, universities told

By Patrick Jack

17 June

Staff at Nature journals ready for strike this week over pay

17 June

Can dialogue of experts solve Africa’s decolonisation dilemma?

17 June

Virtually all patent applications feature men as women lag behind

By Patrick Jack

16 June

‘Stringent’ oversight needed for private PhDs in Bangladesh

By Helen Packer

15 June

Global university fossil fuel divestment ‘nearing tipping point’

Progress in North America and Asia helps to push up number of institutions committing to withdraw funds from fossil fuel companies

12 June

A house partially hangs over a cliff edge following rapid coastal erosion with lightening to illustrate What would happen if a UK university went bankrupt?

What would happen if a UK university went bankrupt?

No British public university has ever had to close its doors, but funding pressures are leading to vast numbers of redundancies and fuelling dire warnings that some institutions are close to the edge. So what would a collapse actually mean for students, staff and wider economies? John Morgan reports

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Susan Solomon: ‘Healing the earth is possible’

Having brokered some of the world’s biggest pacts on global warming, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon tells Matthew Reisz why she is optimistic that environmental damage can be reversed

Opinion

By Eleanor Palser

Valorising academic mothers’ heroism just makes it the default expectation

We need, instead, to develop structures that allow everyone to flourish, both academically and as parents, says Eleanor Palser

18 June

Computer science students must be taught to consider social effects

Departments can no longer be singularly tied to their mathematical and engineering foundations, focused only on what can be built, says Beth Mynatt

We should not lament the demise of philosophy departments

It is surely not Gradgrindian to ask whether a subject can do without a corpus of factual knowledge and still expect students to study it, says Colin Swatridge

AI or not, students must still learn to think for themselves

By Melinda Zook

13 June

UK higher education must beware of going too far with privatisation

By Zahid Naz

12 June

Sustainable finance is no substitute for net zero targets

By Anton Muscatelli

10 June

We need a social science of data

By Cristina Alaimo

11 June

World policy

Iran’s new hijab crackdown risks reviving campus unrest

Reversing the gains made by the protests against a woman’s death in police custody could see the nation erupt again, says Roohola Ramezani

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We know our new logo will be met with both jubilation and judgement

The merged Adelaide University’s brand personality tries to find a sweet spot between proven and audacious, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd

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Be careful what you wish for

Some right-wing politicians seem to view a university collapse as a prize to be fought for. But in reality, a disorderly exit would be disastrous for all

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Talking leadership

By Rosa Ellis

Andrew Parfitt: ‘our work gets into the world quickly’

University of Technology Sydney head on achieving impact on policy and sustainability by building partnerships, fossil fuel divestment and boosting Indigenous enrolment

11 June

Joe Qin, president of Lingnan University

Joe Qin on bringing AI into the liberal arts

The president of Lingnan University on requiring students to use ChatGPT and using data to manage grumbles from staff

By Ellie Bothwell

5 June

Ho Teck Hua on moving like a start-up

The head of Nanyang Technological University leverages the institution’s youthful vigour to put AI at the heart of learning and uses his research background to inform his leadership and help recruit potential Nobel prizewinners

By Rosa Ellis

14 May

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