UCU threatens strikes over Oxford Brookes cuts
Union members declare no confidence in vice-chancellor over proposed plan that would see closure of departments
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Mounting debt poses threat to mission, Chicago warned
Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short
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Star academic sues New Zealand university over Covid abuse
Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles
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Sunak government final straight offers ‘diminished vision of HE’
Pledge to rebalance from ‘poor-quality degrees’ to apprenticeships seen as likely rhetoric only, but there are hopes for international student reset
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Less than half of top universities publish AI guidelines
Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ‘defensive’ over students’ use of ChatGPT, researchers say
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Former university presidents: stop blaming faculty for your mistakes
It defies history and logic to lay decades of failure by administrators, trustees and legislators at tenured professors’ door, says Harvey Graff
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Oxbridge acceptance rates triple in inner London
Figures show that 7.5 per cent of state school pupils in one London borough got into Oxford or Cambridge last year – up from just 1 per cent five years before
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Over 1,000 excluded from highly cited researcher list for ‘fraud’
More rigorous checking targets hyper-authorship, excessive self-citation and unusual patterns of group citation activity
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An elite failure to support science risks hobbling India’s ambitions
Recent pronouncements and government actions could undermine ordinary Indians’ faith in science and stifle critical thinking, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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Education department investigates six colleges over Gaza protests
More probes expected after flood of complaints over demonstrations tied to Israel-Gaza conflict
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Diverse leadership ‘crucial’ for workplace parity in science
‘Core recruitment practices’ without quotas reduced gender parity timeline from 60 years to five
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UN ‘concerned’ about inequality in French higher education
Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises
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Employer demand for degrees projected to grow strongly in US
Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates
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Music and maths courses to close as part of Oxford Brookes cuts
University says current cohorts will be the last, blaming declining student numbers
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US campuses try tolerance training to defuse Palestine protests
Education a better approach than ‘political censorship’, universities told