Downgrade looms for Australian universities鈥 visa risk ratings
Applicants to institutions getting marked down face more processing delays
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Black members鈥 committee boycotts UCU over 鈥榚ntrenched racism鈥
Panel claims its efforts have been met with 鈥榬esistance, indifference, procedural setbacks and deliberate stalling鈥, in wake of聽THE聽article alleging discrimination against black workers
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15 February 2024 digital edition
Scope for pushback: Amid intense scrutiny and political assaults, US universities are silent. Why?
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Challenging racism takes time 鈥 but UCU is doing it
We won鈥檛 stop until staff and members in every branch, every department and every team feel that they are treated fairly and equally, says Jo Grady
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Attacks on universities 鈥榟arness HE resentment and graduate woes鈥
University of Oxford professor Simon Marginson says populist targeting of higher education by Trump, DeSantis and others is finding favour with both graduates and non-graduates alike
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A success recast as a great mistake
Across the Western world, decades of growth in university participation are being repainted as a policy error as funding woes come to a head
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Antisemitic incidents in higher education triple amid Gaza crisis
Anti-Jewish hate reaches record high as vast majority of cases recorded by Community Security Trust come after 7 October
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Interview with Mark Brandon
Polar scientist on working with David Attenborough, capturing nuance in diversity debates and the continued importance of the Open University
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Does hybrid working spell end of the individual faculty office?
Growing scrutiny of empty departmental workplaces has revived the fraught debate over whether academics should retain their own assigned office
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Labour鈥檚 鈥榮ilence鈥 on graduate visas raises UK sector alarm
Opposition scenting power聽urged to 鈥榮how political leadership鈥 in face of Tory pressure to scrap or scale back post-study work route
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鈥楶od-sized鈥 rooms plan to reduce UK student rents
Hepi paper says rents need to come down by about 30聽per cent in response to cost-of-living crisis
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The week in higher education 鈥 15 February 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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University rankings are thriving: just look at the data
Reports of the demise of university league tables are greatly exaggerated. Our rankings are growing in size and influence, writes David Watkins
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UK university applications down for third year in a row
Ucas data reveals drop in application rate among UK school-leavers and significant declines in international interest from key sectors, with least selective institutions bearing brunt
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Richard Sennett: 鈥業鈥檝e always felt like a fish out of water in academia鈥
The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired聽his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than...