Extend PhD funding to reflect ‘modern doctorate’, leaders urge
European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers
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More students back firing lecturers who teach offensive material
Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago
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Female researchers ‘much less likely to get authorship credit’
Lab-by-lab approach determining who gets credit and who doesn’t must be replaced by more comprehensive policies, researchers say
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UK academics undervalued by billions of pounds, says report
Analysis of ‘true economic value’ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system
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The week in higher education – 23 June 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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‘Draconian’ security laws for universities irresponsible: Brandis
Former attorney general turned security professor says avoiding ‘overreach’ is as important as protecting public safety
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Are US universities driving inequality?
Once lauded as engines of social mobility, American universities are increasingly perceived as widening social and economic injustices. Matthew Reisz speaks to two academics whose new book lays bare...
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23 June 2022 digital edition
Burning bridges: Are unions still students’ megaphone?Â
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Does student unionism have a future?
The UK’s National Union of Students is 100 years old. But as students around the world focus on single-issue campaigns and relations with governments crumble amid mutual disdain, questions abound...
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Inflation forces record drop in real-terms pay on US academics
In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels
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Biden nominates Arati Prabhakar as US chief science adviser
Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research
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US mulls huge shift in research funding from excellence to equity
Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars
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Japanese employment practices ‘turning off’ overseas scholars
Western scholars may be taken aback by job negotiations in a country where universities rarely reward merit over seniority
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Rectors for moral development ‘sign of Russia’s re-Sovietisation’
Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say
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Relax online study limits on overseas learners, universities urge
ߣߣÊÓƵn educators demand ‘clarity’ on whether pandemic concessions will be extended