University advertising must be scrupulously accurate
Recent ASA rulings show that students are still potentially being misled, says John Bradley
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Lack of public confidence in AI readiness an 鈥榦pportunity鈥 for HE
Gallup-Northeastern University report analyses views on AI revolution from survey of 10,000 members of public across US, UK and Canada
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Augar missed the chance to put English universities鈥 WP spending to聽better use
Means-tested fees discounts would remove the rationale for fruitless widening participation efforts,聽argues Norman Gowar
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UCU plans strike ballots over pay and pensions
Union sets out timetable for ballots over industrial action in relation to the pay and USS pension disputes
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David Willetts: new universities 鈥榗onverge on old models鈥
Former universities minister聽says institutions do not always succeed in maintaining founding diversity as he predicts 鈥榞rowth agenda鈥 will win in the UK
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Jim Al-Khalili: boost public engagement to beat pseudoscience
Physicist and broadcaster says academics must have freedom and support聽to communicate with society, to 鈥榓void mistakes of past鈥
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Sir Mark Walport: end 鈥榝ury鈥 over 鈥榯op-down鈥 funding decisions
UK鈥檚 public research funding overseer argues debate over political control of public finances is a 鈥榝alse dichotomy鈥 and distracts from bigger societal issues
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Using commander鈥檚 intent in the science lab
Focusing on the 鈥渨hy鈥 instead of the 鈥渉ow鈥 of experiments can make you a more flexible and efficient scientist, says Daniel Bojar聽
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Want to get women to ask more questions at events? Talk about it
Study backs up earlier findings that women are less likely to ask questions at conferences, even when they are in majority 鈥 but that raising awareness of the issue can have a big impact
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Obama adviser warns universities of growing cybersecurity threat
鈥業rresistible鈥 network technology raises threat level from crooks and spooks, says Jeff Bleich
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Australian medical researchers hail 鈥榖iggest investment ever鈥
But multibillion-dollar cash injection risks further sidelining the humanities
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Brexit 鈥榩romises bright future鈥 for Australia-UK university ties
Younger institutions offer greatest potential for dynamic collaborations, says high commissioner
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Workplace hostility pushes LGBT+ physical scientists towards exit
Survey finds that almost a fifth of LGBT+ researchers in the physical sciences have personally experienced harassment or other exclusionary behaviour
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Letters 鈥 27聽June 2019
A complete waste of top talent As a one-time executive dean of a large faculty at an Australian university I find myself in furious agreement with Andrew Oswald (鈥淢anaging out the geniuses will end...
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Is Gender Fluid?: A Primer for the 21st Century, by Sally Hines
Susan Matthews is unimpressed by an attempt to rethink our understanding of biological sex, gender and identity