‘Rigidity the enemy’ for women in academia, agree Oxbridge v-cs
Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference
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Workplace skills courses on Coursera to count as part of degrees
Microcredentials designed by Google and IBM will add practical training in key roles to traditional academic offerings, says chief executive of edtech firm
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South African university participation stalls despite investment
Decade of poor progress means number of degree holders is barely above the sub-Saharan African average
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Police investigate death of Spanish researcher
Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab
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Australia defers crackdown on fixed-term researcher contracts
Union and employer association welcome delay to resolve ‘unintended consequences’
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No one gains if social media storms stunt research in contentious areas
Researchers mustn’t be obliged to second-guess which results might not play out well in public or with powerful interests, worries Tracey Brown
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Interdisciplinary action
If you get what you measure, then a new framework for assessing universities’ efforts to support interdisciplinarity will provide welcome impetus
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I scramble students’ minds so they can unscramble AI
Bizarre riffs about The Karate Kid or the Wu-Tang Clan may irritate his students, but ‘strategic vexing’ can promote the more adventurous educational mindset that undergraduates require in the age of...
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Franchising faces greater scrutiny as OfS lists new priorities
Regulator says subcontracting of courses becoming bigger and bigger part of the sector but there are ‘potential pockets of concern’
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The week in higher education – 26 October 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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26 October 2023 digital edition
Wheel of fortune: Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
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‘New ideas’ needed to tackle student housing shortage
Smaller rooms, repurposed golf courses, refurbished government buildings among the suggestions to tackle the ‘wicked problem’ of accommodating students in Australia
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World University Rankings 2024 by subject: results announced
Subject rankings are diversifying, with more representation outside the US and UK, but old elite still take top places
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World University Rankings 2024 by subject: table information
Browse the full results of the World University Rankings by subject The data shown under key statistics are those provided by the university itself in its submission to the ÌÇÐÄVlog ...
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US enrolment picks up but first-year numbers drop
Nation’s campuses see overall undergraduate enrolment gain for first time since Covid, only to lose new four-year entrants