Australian government R&D contribution hits all-time low
Figures indicate ‘crisis point’ for spending on science and innovation, learned academy warns
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Student accommodation: little room for manoeuvre
The inadequacies of student accommodation used to be a bit of a joke. Today, with both the system and students under strain, it’s no laughing matter
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Is Western higher education’s soft power weakening?
Amid rising tensions between West and Western-educated Chinese elite, experts counter claim that universities ‘fail to instil Western values’
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Australia to crack down on student-dominated ‘guest worker’ scheme
Home affairs minister flags better migration pathways for foreign students, but tougher entry standards in the first place
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Canadian campuses add black student spaces
In ongoing awakening, several large universities act on evidence that marginalised students fare better with greater feelings of community
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Should the UK replace journals with a REF repository?
Immediate review of outputs by a REF reviewer could be more efficient, transparent, informative and, above all, fair, says Martin Lang
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Are true friendships possible in academia?
Alliances with university colleagues can be inspiring and life-affirming but may also be grounded in little more than ambition or survival instinct. Six writers reflect on the joys and challenges of...
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UK deficits at record levels ‘due to pension schemes’
Only two of the 24 members of the Russell Group recorded a surplus for the 2021-22 academic year, Hesa figures show
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US ‘must wake up’ to diminishing research power, or ‘lose to Asia’
Clarivate report highlights reliance of US on research collaboration with China in key fields like engineering and technology
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Frog soup: higher education’s anxieties about AI’s advance
The recent leap forward in AI capabilities has us all gripped. But digital transformation is slow and steady as well as fast and scary
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Edinburgh film showing shut down again after trans rights protest
Rearranged event causes more controversy as activists block entrance to lecture theatreÂ
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UCU faces ‘ultimate test’ as v-cs seek to blunt marking boycott
Union attempts to rally members behind potentially game-changing action despite threats of 100Â per cent wage deductions
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The week in higher education – 27 April 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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US-India task force shows research relationship ‘heating up’
Interest in India growing as Washington-Beijing tensions show no indication of waning, scholars say
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27 April 2023 digital edition
Close as can be: Are true friendships possible in academia?