UK student dropout rates hit record low in pandemic
Economic uncertainty may have encouraged students to stay in education despite campus closures, says UK statistics body
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Francis Fukuyama: academia shares blame for demise of liberalism
Thirty years after his breakout book declared democracy to be an unstoppable force, the End of History author explains to Matthew Reisz why a new defence of liberal values is urgently needed, and why...
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Free proofreading squad targets academic language discrimination
Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders
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The week in higher education – 17 March 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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India set to overtake China as UK’s main overseas student source
Former minister who has called for focus on India warns sector not to create new ‘over-reliance’
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In US and France, two uniquely similar professors
Two genetics experts with series of shared attributes enjoy collaborating, but suspect coincidences not bloodlines
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Interview with Faezeh Marzbanrad
Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women
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Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke
Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’
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English regulator launches review of blended learning standards
Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education
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Are the UK’s former polytechnics the solution to levelling up?
Three decades after the abolition of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, some commentators still lament the supposed loss of locally focused vocational education. But even as the...
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Should I be worried about where my cybersecurity students will end up?
Teaching students to hack is necessary to show them how to defend against it – but we need to do more to instil ethics, says Andy Farnell Â
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17 March 2022 digital edition
Levelling up: thirty years on, has the post-92s’ time come?
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Introducing our new World University Rankings advisory board
We have appointed nine board members across four continents to improve transparency and help us further develop the league table, says Duncan Ross
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Japan University Rankings 2022: methodology
Our Japan rankings are constructed on four pillars that demonstrate the broad strength of a university
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Pandemic ‘made some students keener to study abroad’
Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests