Germany moves to scrap committee gender parity quotas
Too-high targets overburden female academics with administrative work and hold back their careers, research foundation concludesÂ
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Full house for your latest Zoom meeting? Bingo!
Still on mute? Then let’s begin, says Emma Rees
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Sigh Another Day: managing the Covid-19 crisis from the kitchen table
Daily tweets, cake baking and discussion of James Bond film titles have all helped keep Anthony Smith sane
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Universities despair as EU research spending stagnates
Horizon Europe will receive only a tiny fraction of an unprecedented €750 billion pandemic recovery package
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ߣߣÊÓƵn PM: ‘no special deal’ for universities on bailouts
While universities have been made to jump through extra hoops, Scott Morrison says they are being treated like any other billion-dollar business
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Fears UK could ‘walk away’ from EU research over multibillion fee
Changes to EU plans could deter UK government by making it net contributor to Horizon Europe, UUKi director warns
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Minister: university entry is ‘simplistic’ social mobility measure
Michelle Donelan says higher rates of university entry among black Britons highlight how narrative about social mobility can be misleading
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UK universities to limit rounding up of grades to prevent inflation
Sector agrees to new set of principles to stem decades of rising firsts
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Rethink funding reforms, ߣߣÊÓƵn government told
Proposed university funding changes are unnecessarily complex and ‘rife with unintended consequences’, laureate professors say
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China’s Double First Class programme should open to regional universities
Widening eligibility for the new round of the initiative would accelerate the balanced development of global higher education in China, says Li Qingquan
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Which systems are at most risk from the Covid financial fallout?
Global data show the vulnerable position that some countries were already in before the pandemic hit Â
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Can’t head West? Hong Kong rolls out the welcome mat
Incentives draw students wary of Covid-19 and overseas visa hasslesÂ
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Early career academics ‘victims of their own brains’
Aspirants are convinced they can succeed against the odds because they have always succeeded in the past, analysis of ‘quit lit’ suggests
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Pakistan’s publication counting adds up to too little
Academic research is not having any significant impact on the national economy or health of society, laments Tahir Shah
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If higher education is a market, we students deserve a Covid-19 refund
Two years ago, universities claimed to be selling the student experience. So where are our lockdown refunds, asks Maria Magdalena Gajewska