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China told to reform education model to become global student hub
Study highlights how international students are treated as ‘a separate cohort’ and student advisors function like ‘nannies’
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Universities diverge on openness to Erasmus students’ arrival
Most institutions say they will take Erasmus+ students in the autumn, with Swiss universities universally open, while the UK and Netherlands are more closed
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How Covid-19 is reshaping international research collaboration
Three recent studies have unearthed interesting patterns by comparing cross-border working before and during the pandemic
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UK academics ‘discriminate against political opposites’ – survey
Survey of UK academics finds both left and right discriminate against each other in hiring, funding and publishing decisions, leading to self-censorship across the sector
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Will China’s enrolment expansion devalue postgraduate degrees?
Falling staff-student ratios and low quality in some graduate programmes are prompting concern that more will mean worse, says Zhang Ruomei
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Research will suffer if community ties neglected, letter warns
Plea comes amid concerns that UK’s post-Covid research plans have yet to adequately map out non-commercial engagement Â
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The community sector is being excluded from UK HE’s post-Covid recovery
Now is the time to build a research infrastructure that harnesses and nurtures the energy, creativity and enterprise of the third sector, says letter
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#MeToo is failing at university
Sexual violence at the student level is being addressed, but what about when the perpetrator is a member of staff, asks Heather Savigny
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‘Urgent need’ for UK to better understand Chinese student needs
Universities should increase communication with education agents, especially over Covid fears, says working paper
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Binary concepts do not hobble academic thought
Critics underestimated the human imagination’s capacity to render concepts flexible, says Frank Furedi
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OfS plans new regulations on free speech and grade inflation
English regulator also says it wants to reduce overall burden on providers
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Covid-related exceptions from REF submission rules announced
Some staff whose work has been disrupted by pandemic can be excluded, and leeway on publication deadlines also introduced
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Graduate hiring outlook ‘brighter in continental Europe’
Early results from annual graduate employability survey suggest wide variations in views among firms due to pandemicÂ
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UCU: letting universities fail will mean towns and cities fail
Analysis for union shows universities are often among largest local employers and have ‘huge impact’ on town and city economies