How I quit neuroscience to focus on preventing climate breakdown
Shifting fields takes courage, but if a tenured professor can’t take the leap to address the ecological emergency, who can, asks Adam Aron
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English regulator plans focus on quality ‘baselines’ and access
New Office for Students strategy also promises action on free speech, sexual harassment and ‘levelling up’
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Use it or lose it
How can academics be free to speak out and enquire when the principles of robust open debate are under attack from without and within?
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Talking leadership 1: Ron Daniels on the university as a bulwark for democracy
In the first of our new ‘talking leadership’ interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about...
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Free Speech and Koch Money, by Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola
Linsey McGoey applauds a bold account of the ‘dark money’ fuelling the culture wars on campus
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Interview with Richard McLaren
Sports corruption investigator on feeling sorry for drugs cheat Marion Jones, ‘barely graduating high school’ and how sport might clean up its act
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Miah Im, 1974-2021
Tributes paid to a performer of ‘steadfast dedication’ who pioneered a new style of opera production at Rice University
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Afghan Chevening scholars ‘let down’ by UK universities
Refugee academics claim they face steep accommodation fees and scant relief from institutions
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Transform teaching and access to tackle crises, universities told
Universities face ‘reckoning’ on societal relevance akin to last major transformation after Second World War, says Harvard professor on Unesco commission
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Student engagement slips as pandemic curtails collaboration
UK Engagement Survey finds less than two-thirds of undergraduates feel universities ensured quality of academic experience during Covid-19
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The week in higher education – 11 November 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Does the teaching of indigenous knowledge need to be examined?
New Zealand’s embrace of Māori vocabulary goes hand-in-hand with the incorporation of Māori understandings into curricula. But is a debate about the unintended consequences of this move being stifled...
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Addressing toxic behaviour is in universities’ interest
Quite apart from the injustice, institutions that fail to act on complaints undermine trust across entire disciplines, says Irina Dumitrescu
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11 November 2021 digital edition
Meeting of minds: how far should New Zealand’s embrace of indigenous knowledge go?
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No sector experience required for ߣߣƵn university councils
University governance bodies an ‘outlier’ in ߣߣƵ, with sectoral experience an oddity