UK ‘missing out on talent’ as eastern European enrolment plummets
Figures suggest just a tenth of previous entrant numbers from some countries got a study visa
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New network takes aim at natural disasters and workforce needs
While many governments struggle to predict workforce needs, ߣߣÊÓƵ’s new tropical alliance is giving it a crack
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Is block teaching the future of university pedagogy?
Teaching modules intensively, rather than in parallel, has had positive results at the handful of institutions that have tried it. But would it work for all students and all subjects? And would...
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6 January 2022 digital edition
No more juggling: is block teaching the future of learning?
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Kent Fuchs to step down as University of Florida president
President to leave amid political interference by Republican governor, after strong record of student, faculty and research growth since 2015
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New UK rules on international research partnerships now in force
Legislation gives Westminster government power to block or impose conditions on acquisition of intellectual property in 17 areas
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US to unify grant application disclosures after Lieber conviction
Biden administration promises simplification long sought by research universities
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Hong Kong students’ union faces ‘shackled’ role on campus
Staff and students voice concern over CUHK’s condition that union can be reinstated only if it pledges not to break law
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Bespoke robot-written exams to curb student cheating
Creating unique datasets for online exams preferable to ‘naive’ honour codes or faulty online surveillance, experts say
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Macron’s pan-European academy ‘welcome but needs work’
French president seeks to rejuvenate thinking about common continental identity
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Academics’ unscientific assertions on Covid are exacerbating division
The pandemic has demonstrated that there are broad deficiencies in quantitative reasoning skills even within the academy, says David Sanders
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US judge sides with Florida professors in voting rights case
In free speech battle, court agrees that university and conservative governor still pose a threat to basic faculty rights
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Melbourne fights order to reveal its landholdings
ߣߣÊÓƵ’s wealthiest university locks horns with one of its own academics, who says ‘the public has a right to know’
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Tackle precarity or lose ‘sense of community’, says v-c
Cara Aitchison says UK universities should prioritise concerns like precarity, gender pay gap and ‘compassion for deep tired’ staff