Are US universities driving inequality?
Once lauded as engines of social mobility, American universities are increasingly perceived as widening social and economic injustices. Matthew Reisz speaks to two academics whose new book lays bare...
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23 June 2022 digital edition
Burning bridges: Are unions still students’ megaphone?Â
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Does student unionism have a future?
The UK’s National Union of Students is 100 years old. But as students around the world focus on single-issue campaigns and relations with governments crumble amid mutual disdain, questions abound...
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Inflation forces record drop in real-terms pay on US academics
In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels
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Biden nominates Arati Prabhakar as US chief science adviser
Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research
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US mulls huge shift in research funding from excellence to equity
Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars
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Japanese employment practices ‘turning off’ overseas scholars
Western scholars may be taken aback by job negotiations in a country where universities rarely reward merit over seniority
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Rectors for moral development ‘sign of Russia’s re-Sovietisation’
Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say
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Relax online study limits on overseas learners, universities urge
Australian educators demand ‘clarity’ on whether pandemic concessions will be extended
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I’ve finally realised impact is my duty – and public involvement is the key
There is always more to a research question than the underpinning science. So work with the people you are studying, says Nicola Ray
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Hong Kong adds Korean language to university entrance exams
Korea’s soft power is only part of the explanation, with Seoul pumping millions into opening Korean language academies around the world, professor says
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‘Glaring lack of diversity’ among public health journal editors
Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study
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Melbourne posts A$500 million surplus
University’s ‘strong’ financial results energise union calls for job security and pay rises
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How to end Oxbridge dominance? Try halting undergraduate teaching
Shift prestigious institutions to ‘greater potential’ of education for excluded adults, says FT columnist
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Top Chinese universities trial three-year bachelor’s degrees
Peking and Tsinghua join drive to smooth journey from undergraduate to postgraduate studies