UK deficits at record levels ‘due to pension schemes’
Only two of the 24 members of the Russell Group recorded a surplus for the 2021-22 academic year, Hesa figures show
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US ‘must wake up’ to diminishing research power, or ‘lose to Asia’
Clarivate report highlights reliance of US on research collaboration with China in key fields like engineering and technology
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Frog soup: higher education’s anxieties about AI’s advance
The recent leap forward in AI capabilities has us all gripped. But digital transformation is slow and steady as well as fast and scary
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Edinburgh film showing shut down again after trans rights protest
Rearranged event causes more controversy as activists block entrance to lecture theatreÂ
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UCU faces ‘ultimate test’ as v-cs seek to blunt marking boycott
Union attempts to rally members behind potentially game-changing action despite threats of 100Â per cent wage deductions
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The week in higher education – 27 April 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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US-India task force shows research relationship ‘heating up’
Interest in India growing as Washington-Beijing tensions show no indication of waning, scholars say
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27 April 2023 digital edition
Close as can be: Are true friendships possible in academia?
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Indexation adds over A$5bn to ߣߣÊÓƵn graduate debt
Despite ‘debt avalanche’, universities stress that tuition fee loans are ‘not like grocery bills’
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Lieber avoids prison in China case
In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer
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DeSantis trustees begin denying tenure
New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates
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Breaking into the all-white academy
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
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Interview with Marc in het Panhuis
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
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Ivy League schools ‘should use endowments to increase admissions’
Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary
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Female leaders need support – not the abuse they currently endure
The barrage of personal abuse faced by women in leadership positions risks our gains on gender equality, says Dawn FreshwaterÂ