The colonial, monolingual model of US HE must be rethought
Speaking Spanish is seen as a problem to be erased. But in Puerto Rico it is key to our success, say Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Héctor José Huyke
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Curiosity-driven research is ‘goose that lays the golden egg’
Lord Vallance says UK must not ‘rest on its laurels’, but signals that new Labour government will not interfere with direction of blue-sky science
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French researcher imprisoned in Russia under ‘foreign agent’ law
Laurent Vinatier, an adviser at the non-profit Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, sentenced to three years in prison
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Forgo salary rise, ߣߣÊÓƵn National University begs staff
Waiving pay during Covid did not prevent redundancies, union warns members
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Suspended Buckingham v-c says allegations against him ‘baseless’
James Tooley vows to contest ‘serious’ claims as he faces inquiry at UK’s oldest private universityÂ
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What academia can learn from Edinburgh Cold War-era Soviet talks
Conversations between Scottish and Soviet researchers during the 1980s show academia’s potential to provide ideological safe space ‘outside of the state and its institutional needs’
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Academic pessimism on university funding as Japan goes to polls
Struggling universities unlikely to see greater support as warring parties focus on political reform
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Proposed resit fee ‘could deter students from finishing degree’
Charge students to retake passed exams, Norwegian government tells universities
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Clamping down on international HE will damage global development
Policymakers must recognise that international education is a lifeline for low- and middle-income countries, say Maia Chankseliani and Joonghyun Kwak
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London universities ‘more likely to be allowed to go bust’
Capital seen as being able to absorb ramifications of a market exit, while regional towns and cities would feel much greater impact
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UK-educated economists scoop Nobel for imperial legacy research
British-Turkish team behind the 2012 book Why Nations Fail awarded Nobel prize in economics
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California legacy admissions ban is signal, but no silver bullet
Experts weight in on how Supreme Court’s national prohibition on affirmative action has affected diversity of this year’s intake
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University interest in ‘suboptimal’ Turing scheme wanes
Number of higher education institutions applying to take part in UK student mobility programme fell this year
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Cultivating homegrown talent ‘better than buying superstars’
Personal touch the magic ingredient in a programme credited with keeping research hotshots on home base
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Better FE/HE collaboration will improve educational outcomes
UUK’s Blueprint is right to call for greater FE-HE collaboration so both sectors can complement each other’s strengths, say Sam Parrett and Nick Whitehouse