Interview with Joan Donovan
The research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy talks about growing up in an environment of aggressive scepticism, and then battling an academic culture...
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Are student demands for higher grades threatening standards?
As students in many countries receive their final degree marks amid perennial concerns about grade inflation, three scholars reflect on their experiences of being pressured to mark more leniently,...
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Ex-OfS head: ‘more transparency needed’ on research-teaching link
Single department or minister should cover both teaching and research elements of universities, says Nicola Dandridge
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No Westminster government will raise fee cap, universities warned
Despite increasing agitation over fee freeze, politics around student support seen as weighing against lifting of cap
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Female faculty aid US students with confidences
At risk to their careers, women teaching sciences shown in nationwide survey to be more willing to admit struggles with depression, poverty and attainment
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Belgian university introduces universal basic research funding
Over 1,000 professors will get €30,000 a year to spend as they please as a remedy to the low success rates of national and international competitions
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The week in higher education – 20 July 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Russian universities in wartime are reverting to Soviet settings
The unravelling of internationalisation and academic freedom is likely to come with a repurposing of research to military ends, says Maria Yudkevich
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Stanford president steps down after research fraud probe
Marc Tessier-Lavigne agrees to step down after months-long university investigation finds failures to correct errors in articles
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The USS’ tide has turned, but we must be careful no one is left stranded
Improving benefits and lowering contributions must not mitigate against the pension scheme’s ability to better ride out future storms, says Kate Barker
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‘No regrets’ as USS set to reverse pension cuts and payment hikes
Funding assumptions for 2023 valuation confirm rosier outlook for UK’s largest higher education pensions scheme after years of pain
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Dismay as Sunak ‘delays Horizon Europe decision again’
Dithering by Downing Street raises concerns that more funding for research will be clawed back by the Treasury
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Australian review proposes levy on international student fees
Needs-based student funding and second national university also among accord panel’s ‘spiky ideas’, aimed at improving equitable access
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Biden tries again on major student debt forgiveness plan
Shortly after US Supreme Court rejects sweeping debt forgiveness plan, administration embarks on new attempt using different legal basis
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Japan’s ¥10 trillion excellence fund off to shaky start
As fund records ¥60 million deficit ahead of disbursement, academics voice concern over ‘strings-attached’ model