Oxford feels heat over ‘ageist’ retirement rule despite reforms
Changes will exempt many more researchers from forced retirement at 68 but critics say policy is still unfair
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The postdoc shining a light on the plight of China’s gay scholars
Coming out becoming ‘increasingly risky’ on Chinese campuses, says academic who left the country
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Branch campuses are not a failed experiment
As Sir Colin Campbell knew, an overseas footprint offers the long-term returns that universities are established for, say Christine Ennew and David Greenaway
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Global Academic Reputation Survey launching soon
Survey will be available in 12 languages and distributed over three months
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THE World Academic Summit 2023 heads to Sydney
The University of Sydney will host the next THEÂ World Academic Summit in September 2023
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Populist slurs about universities contain ‘kernel of truth’
Universities have done themselves a disservice by playing politics and overlooking the public mood, chancellors say
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University rankings capture winds of change
For two decades, ߣߣÊÓƵ’s rankings have both tracked and contributed to an ever more connected world. Now universities face an unwelcome shift in global dynamics
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World Bank splashing $9 billion on university campuses
After long being attuned to primary and secondary needs, lender and donor sees urgency of tertiary-level development
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Listen to universities, not accountants, Schmidt urges Canberra
As companies seek to supplant university courses, Nobelist fears policymakers blinded by promises of cheap and easy
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Few researchers get open data training despite mandates to share
Lack of institutional support in meeting the growing demand for data sharing must be addressed, says global study of attitudes towards publishing
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Employing Jordan Peterson ‘not easy’ but ‘right’ for Toronto
President says experience of ‘provocateur extraordinaire’ provided a tough test of principles that are now paying off
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Transform universities to avert societal irrelevance, urges Crow
‘Universities can’t sit in isolation’ but academics remain too ‘internally focused’, says Arizona State president
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13 October 2022 digital edition
China closes in on US; Oceania and Africa rise in our biggest-ever World University Rankings table
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Being a community college professor has pushed me to breaking point
America’s two-year public colleges are often romanticised as engines of social mobility and the epitome of the educative mission. But one academic has found the reality to be very different, with...