Modern students are not snowflakes
Mental illness has been depicted as the primary occupational health hazard of UK student life since the 1950s, says Sarah Crook
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Talking leadership 18: Hideo Ohno on improving innovation and culture change
The Tohoku University president discusses the legacy of the 2011 earthquake and making his institution more friendly to foreignersÂ
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Striking staff tired but determined in third wave of walkouts
Sunny start to the latest round of UK industrial action couldn’t mask the frustrations felt by many union members
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Don’t axe Australia’s research grant veto powers: Senate panel
Parliamentarians clash on funding discretion and whether it should continue, but agree on need for ARC review
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Science elite ‘wrongly believes it can solve political problems’
Holberg Prize winner Sheila Jasanoff says policy implications of technological progress deserve far greater study
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Spur Russian academics to speak out, Moscow scholar urges West
Professor says he accepts it may be necessary for ties to be cut to some institutions in the country  Â
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Strike called over university’s ‘two-tier workforce’ plan
Unions want Staffordshire University to stop hiring new employees through a subsidiary company on ‘inferior terms’
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Passion is great, but adjuncts also need emotional intelligence
University educators must not be blind to other life goals – like building a savings account, says Brent LuciaÂ
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Work-from-home scuppered ‘thinking time’ for female researchers
Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics’ lockdown experiences suggests
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I grieve as I watch Ukraine’s student generation forced to take up arms
As war descends on Europe again, how many of the idealistic young scholars defending their country against invasion will live full lives, muses Keith Burnett
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War forces post-Soviet scholars to choose between Russia and West
East-West schism widened by Russian academia being cut off from world, says scholar
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It is time for English higher education to put its faith in T levels
For the new technical qualification to be a success, every university must encourage applicants from these courses, says David Gallagher
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EdX ‘doubling down’ on free courses despite for-profit deal
Access to many courses will remain free, says head of Mooc pioneer, with participants charged for exams, interaction and certificates
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Chinese campuses close as Covid cases spike again
Senior officer dismissed because of cluster of cases at university in Jilin
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UKRI promises action over ‘threatening’ Researchfish tweets
Platform responds to online criticism by telling researchers they would be reported to their funders