South African vice-chancellors’ pay rises ‘morally bankrupt’
Average remuneration up by 8 per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for former Johannesburg head
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Lectures in question as paid work pushes attendance even lower
Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist
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Job-share vice-chancellors call to drive flexible working shift
UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank
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The week in higher education – 14 March 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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English regulator consults on tying funding to quality metrics
Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of £1.5 billion annual budget
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What does a $710 visa application buy? A cut-and-paste rejection
Australian visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession
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Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke
The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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Is it time for Ukraine’s exiled academics to return?
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
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If abusive lawyers can be banned from practising, why not academics?
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe
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Engineering and physics PhD numbers to fall despite extra funding
Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms
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Mitchell Scholarship ‘paused’ due to lack of sustainable funding
Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says
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US research funding increasingly reliant on corporate agendas
In another edition of gloomy research indicators, major NSF tally finds companies nearing the basic science spending of the federal government
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Speed of requested graduate visa review ‘will limit quality’
Professor leading Migration Advisory Committee warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered
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Cross-strait tensions hamper Chinese recruitment drive in Taiwan
Efforts to recruit students from across the Taiwan Strait seen as attempt to boost sovereignty claim
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Australian diversity efforts ‘lack evidence for effectiveness’
Scientific method can inform an inclusiveness agenda that ‘works’, says former Blair adviser