France’s university elite is anointed – but excellence still needs work
The 10-year Idex process to reconfigure French universities and make them more internationally visible has reached its conclusion, writes John Ludden
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Canberra weighs in on teacher training course recruitment
Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend
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UK strike action disruption limited, employers claim
Union announces new ballot as disputes over pay and pensions remain unresolved
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Biden expands loan forgiveness for public sector workers
Identification of 100,000 eligible borrowers cast as first step to fulfill long-promised relief for teachers and others in public and non-profit jobs
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Doctoral writing classes work, randomised trial finds
First randomised controlled trials of doctoral writing classes find major improvements in researcher confidence and study habits
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Hope for end to campus violence as student unions return to Pakistan
Supporters say student engagement could lead to a ‘less radicalised’ student body, but fear more political meddling in institutional decisions
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ERC grants ‘could be exit strategy’ for researchers leaving UK
Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen
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Politics splits US college admissions counsellors
Reflecting nation’s angry partisan tone, admissions advisers’ association mutes online exchange, and sister group weighs shunning Texas
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PQA’s demise doesn’t mean England’s admissions system can’t be improved
Students need help to make better course choices and lifelong learners need a flexible application system, says Graeme Atherton
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Minister can veto our grants too: NHMRC
Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere
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Doncaster sets ‘paradigm shift’ for ‘sticky’ lifelong learning
South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise
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Do academic boycotts work?
The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?
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OfS puts 10 providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’ over ‘viability’
National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’
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Fulbright scholarship programme reinstated in Afghanistan
Students welcome turnaround, which comes after January announcement that US State Department had shuttered the scheme
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Is the World Bank’s intervention in Ukrainian HE too little, too late?
The attempt to improve the country’s universities was stuttering even before the war broke out, says Ararat Osipian