Heavy hands on the tiller
Higher education systems that are free to evolve have improved and adapted as times change, but more are seeing ministers determined to set the course
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ߣߣÊÓƵn minister ‘briefed three times’ on vetoed research
‘Vast majority’ of promised research commercialisation fund falls outside spending commitments, estimates committee also hears
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Interview with Bongai Munguni
Mozambique PhD candidate explains how she overcame extreme poverty, bereavement and daily beatings to study in the UK
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Red tape warning for research projects over national security law
‘Seemingly small regulatory requirements readily spawn large bureaucratic responses,’ says City president
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ߣߣÊÓƵ-China research collaboration nosedives
Funding council statistics lend weight to anecdotal accounts that academics are self-censoring scholarship on superpower
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Happiness course ‘protected’ student well-being during pandemic
Running Bristol programme online still helped with student well-being compared with control group, study suggestsÂ
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Need a citation? Then make your paper harder to read
Study analysing readability and citations suggests academics may have an incentive to keep their abstracts complex
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The week in higher education – 17 February 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Record numbers of school-leavers seek UK university places
Drop in mature applications means total pool has shrunk slightly, with continuing European downturn offset by Indian and Chinese growth
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Wall Street’s failed student loan experiment must be ended
As politicians begin to confront America’s student debt crisis, Charlie Eaton explains how public opinion turned so decisively against the financialisation of US higher education and why full loan...
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Pay researchers for results, not plans
Scientists should strive for real impact, not to impress a panel of busy peers, with their agendas, biases and blind spots, says Pedro DomingosÂ
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17 February 2022 digital edition
Kill switch:Â Can academics keep Big Tech in check?
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Can the academy rein in Big Tech?
The grip of Silicon Valley on commerce and culture is huge and ever-growing. But as concerns mount about tech firms’ ethics, is there anything that universities – with vastly lower research and...
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Berkeley bracing for deep enrolment cut after court ruling
City residents fighting student overcrowding win order that would slice planned freshmen class by a third