Indigenous models of liberal arts should beware of ethnic chauvinism
As the Indian and the US examples both show, openness and flexibility is easily limited by parochialism and provincialism, says Saikat Majumdar
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Hakim Adi: Millions of black Britons ‘written out of history’
Britain’s first history professor of African heritage discusses Colston, the ‘myth’ of Windrush and surviving in academia without support
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UK REF environment statements at unit level ‘should be scrapped’
Narratives describing research in departments should be replaced by institution-level document, recommends funder-backed study
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National Student Survey changes: satisfaction out, free speech in
Overall satisfaction question to go in shake-up of influential poll, regulator confirms
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Reform ‘wasteful’ research grant process, says UK bureaucracy review
More innovative screening of grant applications that avoid full peer review could remove red tape burden on researchers, says Adam Tickell
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Participation gap remains for poorer pupils, despite steady improvement
New figures show record-breaking levels of progression to higher education for pupils on free school meals
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New Australian workforce agency to target graduate shortage areas
Universities’ pleas to train more professionals may now gain traction as Labor government creates new jobs and skills body
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US Supreme Court Justice quits teaching role after protests
Judicial leader of campaign to end abortion rights abandons constitutional law seminar at George Washington University
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Record numbers have their say in university reputation survey
The annual survey, out in November, will be the biggest yetÂ
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Australian vice-chancellors have forfeited public trust
Enormous surpluses underline the extent to which universities prioritise their own welfare over that of future graduates, says Hannah Forsyth
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Nature and University of California expand open-access pact
California continues trailblazing push with major publishers but sees fundamental cost problem still unresolved
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Biden sets new limits on for-profit colleges
Administration nears completion of regulatory overhaul with new rules on student aid, non-profit conversions and prison recruiting
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Most summer school students ‘already want to go to university’
Commonly used widening participation initiative not targeting those who would benefit most from such schemes, study finds
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Rosa Freedman: REF impact rules ‘unfair on researchers’
Human rights expert claims ‘inaccurate’ impact submission written on her work by old employer highlights why funding rules should change
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US suspends Fulbright-Hays foreign-language penalty
Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees – for now – that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery