Students and scholars alike are in precarious positions
What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon
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Not here to court populism
I am puzzled by the suggestion that the fact that academics are out of step with populist opinion indicates that universities need to 鈥渄e-polarise鈥 by moving in a more 鈥渕oderate鈥 direction (鈥淭he...
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International pay
As last week鈥檚 issue noted, many UK universities have, or are considering, international partnerships or campuses (鈥淥verseas campuses can be both meaningful and viable鈥, Leader, 3 November). Managing...
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Who needs experts?
On Saturday 29 October, Glyn Davies, Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire, tweeted: 鈥淧ersonally, never thought of academics as 鈥榚xperts鈥. No experience of the real world.鈥 Under the hashtag #...
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Vis-脿-vis the facts
I think it is unfair to assume that all Brexiters have an inward-looking approach to the UK鈥檚 position in the global community (鈥淭he UK is losing the economic and political arguments over...
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Grant winners 鈥 10 November 2016
聽A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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A ray of light for academia amid the Brexit gloom
As push-pull factors exert their force on scholars in the UK, the Article 50 ruling buys universities more time to argue their case against a shifting EU backdrop
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Could higher education be key in healing US economic divisions?
Gates foundation director tells Chicago conference that election has highlighted gulf between 鈥榟aves and have-nots鈥 in terms of US college education
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Universities can learn from Trump about how to inspire
What is the point of generating knowledge if universities cannot articulate it? asks Janice Kay
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Donald Trump as US president: what it means for higher education
Donald Trump is to become the next US president, but what does his election mean for academia?
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Yesterday I wrote about Trump winning the election, but I never thought the piece would be published
Chris Parr explains why he also wrote an article about Hillary Clinton which will never see the light of day