Talking leadership: Kerstin Mey on using arts to reimagine education
University of Limerick president talks about putting in place university-wide structural changes to inspire cross-pollination between disciplines
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Chris Husbands: English sector calls for fee rise are ‘tone deaf’
Outgoing Sheffield Hallam v-c also urges politicians to stop expecting that all universities should ‘look like a medieval theme park’
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University leaders can learn from military minds
Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
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The European Union cannot afford an insular approach to research
At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan...
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Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’?
A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and...
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Can the REF really address the research environment crisis?
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
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Delays in UCU strike ballot leave marking boycotters ‘exposed’
Union has just weeks left to call vote on whether to extend industrial action or members will face being forced to clear assessment backlog
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ID Manchester: university plots path for ‘inclusive innovation’
£1.7 billion venture with developer aims to sidestep pitfalls of university innovation districts and create jobs in deprived Greater Manchester towns
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A merged Adelaide university would be out of step with accord reforms
Reducing the number of universities in South Australia would fly in the face of the Universities Accord’s call for more differentiation, says Warren Bebbington
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Willetts: move universities from DfE ‘treating them like schools’
Tory former universities minister urges shift of responsibility to DSIT and binning of ‘Thatcherite rhetoric’ against industrial strategy
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More fluid routes between academia and industry would boost innovation
Better alignment of pay and benefits, working cultures and expectations will clear the way for research to have impact, say nine Future Leaders fellows
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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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Is Justin Trudeau failing the Canadian science test?
Canada’s Liberal government swept to power eight years ago promising to undo the damage inflicted by the previous Harper regime. However, after a big early funding spike for basic research, there is...
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Queen’s University Belfast thrown out of Ucea over local pay deal
Institution says it stands by decision to offer staff wage rises in order to end marking boycott despite being ejected from national body
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Prospect of more local deals deepens fractures in UK pay dispute
With national talks aimed at ending the marking boycott at a standstill, some universities are looking to take matters into their own hands