April McMahon to step down as Aberystwyth v-c
Former Edinburgh vice-principal faced criticism during her tenure but has enjoyed recent success
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21 ways to take down the Death Star: an academic view
Use the Force if you want, but to really destroy the Death Star, Heriot-Watt University may be the place to start
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‘Lad culture’ and marketisation share blame on sexual harassment failure
Goldsmiths conference looks at issue of harassment on campus – and why it is often ignored or dismissed
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Soas academic targeted over Indonesia claims
Politics lecturer Michael Buehler faces sustained attacks after raising questions about covert lobbying ahead of US visit by country’s president
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Professor launches course for Calais ‘Jungle’ camp refugees
Settlers will study course on ‘life stories’ led by University of East London academic
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Private universities ‘only way to meet demand’ in emerging economies
Allowing private sector to flourish is best route to vastly increase access to ‘good, not great’ higher education, BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears
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When we label students by ability, we limit their potential to learn
University educators have a responsibility to debunk the myth that intelligence is fixed, says Claire Taylor
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Early career researchers: the difficulty of saying ‘no’ as a newbie
Juggling multiple departmental roles on top of teaching and research can leave new lecturers feeling ‘punch-drunk’, explains new appointee Richard Budd
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UK should learn from ‘downsides’ of US higher education
There is ‘often ill-informed reverence for the US system’, claims the director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher EducationÂ
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THE BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit: Twitter reaction
Round-up of tweets from ߣߣÊÓƵ’s summit in Delhi
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Russia business school head: academics can ‘keep the world together’
Konstantin Krotov also speaks of ‘full support’ for Turkish academic in light of Russian-Turkish diplomatic tension
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Giving Offa director target-setting powers ‘would not work’, Les Ebdon warns
Fair access tsar warns ‘top-down meddling’ would be a ‘costly, bureaucratic exercise’
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White, Western and male? Prepare to be told off for writing a poem
I had assumed stories about campus political correctness might be overblown. But the experience of my friend is an example of how deeply it permeates universities
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‘Top-down’ leadership approach ‘key to most successful universities’
But Bilkent University rector warns THE BRICS conference that bad leadership can also sink institutions. David Matthews reports from Delhi