White House asks universities for advice on foreign students
Unusual invitation by top administration officials suggests corporate pressure on Trump over immigrants
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Leeds pulls advert for ‘exploitative’ research assistant job
Academics say ‘personal assistant’ position highlights precarity faced by early career scholars
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Monash mulls ‘research-focused’ Indonesian branch campus
Vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner confirms university is considering opening outpost following signing of free trade agreement
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£1.3 billion Turnitin sale spotlights intellectual property fears
Huge price tag demonstrates power of plagiarism-checking company
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Royal Statistical Society: the TEF should have a health warning
Royal Statistical Society vice-president Guy Nason explains why it has taken the unusual step of reporting the Teaching Excellence Framework to the UK’s statistics watchdog
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University careers fairs are failing black students
Cage Boons explains why he and other University of Hertfordshire students decided to run their own careers fair for ethnic minority undergraduates
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‘Sea change’ raises tide of ߣߣÊÓƵn university fundraising
Institutions’ philanthropy heads lift their sights as campaigns exceed expectations
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We can do more to fix vocational education’s image problem
Degree apprenticeships are helping to alter perceptions of earn-as-you-learn courses, but universities must demonstrate their value to students and employers, says Jane Turner
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Trump free speech threat contradicts facts, allies and himself
US president’s vow to tie research funds to unfettered campus debate is short on details and advocates
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Warning over ‘biased results’ of industry-funded research
Europe-wide temperature check of university-business interactions unearths concerns over loss of curiosity-led researchÂ
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Botched email reveals names of university staff facing redundancy
Winchester apologises after putting address details in ‘to’ or ‘cc’ fields, not ‘bcc’
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Reading staff blame languages cuts on ‘misguided vanity projects’
Staff hit out at ‘financial mismanagement’ as university announces plans to cut roughly a third of modern languages jobs
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Restricting student loan access is a clumsy way to solve overrecruitment
Ministers are right to question student recruitment practices in some universities, but restricting loan access to those who fail to hit three Ds at A level would be a retrograde step, says Tom...
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Privileged students fill majority of degree apprenticeship places
Proportion of places taken by disadvantaged students shrinks as level of qualification rises
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International Women’s Day: will the drive for gender equity get past institutional resistance?
On International Women’s Day, Jocalyn Clark and Imogen Coe ask why universities have been so slow to adopt meaningful change to improve gender representation