Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive
Academics should not be seduced by the moral certainty on either side of the ‘with us or against us’ divide, says Brad Evans
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Stop ‘vilifying’ China, Beijing tells social scientists
Ministry warns researchers against ‘degrading’ nation in pursuit of international journal publication
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Doubts raised over UK’s alternative to Erasmus+
Turing scheme will not cover tuition fees, travel costs to the UK or staff exchanges, leaving UK universities to negotiate fee waivers
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Broken employability metrics need a post-pandemic revamp
New measures that provide insight into how universities build personal qualities of their graduates are needed, argue Doug Cole and Dino Willox
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ߣߣÊÓƵn minister tipped to rethink building blocks of degrees
New minister’s old work on online education could be revived to encourage tertiary sector integration, experts say
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Measuring quality with metrics ignores transformative mentoring
Metrics rarely reflect how students have addressed their weaknesses, which is itself the most rewarding part of university teaching, says Megan Argo
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US campus tries rural outreach to blunt political danger
Boise State’s Marlene Tromp sees small-town rescues as solution to anti-intellectual fervour
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The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, by Martina Zimmermann
Matthew Broome is impressed by a study of our changing ideas about dementia that combines scientific and cultural analysis
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Medicine, education and social work back to campus on 4 January
Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK
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London Higher head aiming to counter government ‘preconceptions’
Diana Beech, former adviser to Tory ministers, wants to challenge ‘crude generalisations’ that could hit London’s vital arts courses
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In the midst of a pandemic, let’s not ignore the rest of science
Praise for Covid vaccine creators is deserved, but the extraordinary work of other scientists must not be overlooked, says Nicholas Dirks
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Student returns to English campuses restricted for early January
Government gives priority for medical subjects to restart in first weeks of January, with wider student return ‘kept under review’
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New Year Honours 2021: knighthood for Stirling v-c
Both Nottingham universities’ leaders also honoured, along with former AHRC head Andrew Thompson
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Careers Clinic: how should IÂ react to negative student feedback?
THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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Pandemic is no time for a pedagogy overhaul
Calls to redesign curricula for online study ignore how scholars need time and peer support to reinvent courses, says Carole Binns