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I enjoyed the piece on doctoral supervisors having to adapt to new power dynamics, especially when they are younger than their students (“Do academics need a ‘split personality’ to teach older PhDs...
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Academic reputations: will the TEF be a game changer?
The exercise has the potential to shake up the current hierarchy and will be judged on whether it revises how firms and students view universities
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Brexit would be a victory for those who distrust academics
But universities are not entirely blameless for leave supporters' distrust - academics' liberal and left-wing tendencies verge on conformity, says David Matthews
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Asia Universities Summit: KAUST head heralds 'amazing progress'
Jean-Lou Chameau says new institution has established 'remarkable' research record since opening and has not been influenced by Saudi Arabian cultural issuesÂ
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A tale of two campuses: US public universities recruiting more out-of-state students
There have been radically different responses to Massachusetts’ and Maine’s attempts to bring in students from further afield, explains Howard Segal
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Brexit will ‘impoverish’ universities, say v-cs
It is ‘crystal clear’ that UK higher education is stronger thanks to European Union membership, says a letter signed by 103 university leaders on eve of referendum
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Radical gender equality plan for Irish university
National University of Ireland, Galway will introduce a raft of policies to tackle its deficit of women in leadership positions
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Graduate ‘over-education’ a ‘legitimate concern’, argues paper
CGHE working paper suggests that governments should implement intervention policies on the ‘demand side of the labour market’
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Video: ÌÇÐÄVlog Asia Universities Summit 2016
The 2016 THE Asia Universities Summit took place at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology this week
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The legal view: Brexit, tuition fees and equality legislation
Would EU students be re-categorised as overseas students if the UK leaves the EU? Elizabeth Jones takes a look
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Asia Universities Summit: student creativity key, says KAIST head
Steve Kang says he wants to challenge East Asian 'uni-directional' tradition of education where students simply 'prepare for the test'
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Netherlands to survey every researcher on misconduct
Dutch push to tackle fraud and ‘reproducibility crisis’ follows high-profile misconduct cases in the country
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Let students with two Es into top universities, says ex-minister
Baroness Blackstone argues that admitting applicants of mixed ability would be a ‘worthy goal’