‘Where is my country’s next female vice-chancellor?’
Malawi’s first female university president Address Malata reflects on shaking up a male-dominated institution and why having more women on the faculty matters
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Sydney’s Palestine protest response criticised from all sides
V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’
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Two-thirds of Cambridge researchers on temporary contracts
Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report
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Dutch research funding cuts will ‘reverse years of progress’
Incoming right-wing government plans to reduce spending by €1 billion, just as efforts to reduce precarity and overwork were starting to have an effect
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A legacy in stone: balancing sustainability with tradition
Achieving green goals isn’t easy at a centuries-old institution. Giacomo Bergamini and Simona Tondelli of the University of Bologna share their tips for embracing heritage while working towards...
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Slashing HE courses will not help the next UK government boost growth
Undermining universities offering degrees to fund apprenticeships is poor policy. Here are some better ones, says Paul BainesÂ
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Fees and teaching subsidies rise in New Zealand budget
First budget of new governing coalition seen as ‘neutral’ for universities as small increases in funding set to be offset by inflation
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China set to overtake Europe on English-taught degrees
Number of English-medium degrees on offer outside traditional anglophone destinations increases by 48 per cent in five years
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Will UK Labour’s research policy be tame or transformational?
Labour’s official science slate is dull but radical moves to reform research funding and engage industry could be close, experts believe
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Finland’s fee hike for non-European students ‘paradoxical’
Government proposes full-cost tuition plus application fees for non-EU applicants, while aiming for international recruitment increase
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Universities must do more to address student food insecurity
Working with established community networks can boost the quality and choice available in food banks, say Hilda Mulrooney and four co-authors
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Yale names Stony Brook’s Maurie McInnis as president
Alumnus and trustee to become Ivy League institution’s first non-interim female leader after narrowly avoiding faculty censure at Stony Brook
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UCU conferences cancelled as union staff strike over ‘racism’
Unite branch leads walkout, saying industrial relations in union are ‘broken’, just hours after general secretary delivers unity message in opening speech
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State enforcement of campus free speech ‘a contradiction’
Universities are not ‘speaker’s corner’ and governments should not impose ‘diktats about what we do on campus’, New Zealand forum hears
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More apprentices ‘shouldn’t come at higher education’s expense’
Tory plans to close low-performing degrees to fund apprenticeships ‘miss the mark’, says UK sector