New university 鈥榳on鈥檛 cure鈥 Germany鈥檚 rural doctor shortage
Brandenburg鈥檚 multi-billion euro 鈥榤odel for rural medicine鈥櫬爓ill not stop doctors wanting to work in big cities, experts caution
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Monash accused of 鈥榬ewriting rules鈥 in underpayments row
University says attempts to聽retrospectively change a years-old agreement are about聽鈥榬esolving ambiguities鈥櫬燼round how staff聽are paid for student consultations
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Humanities could change the world 鈥 if only they could change themselves
There are few professional roles that would not benefit from a broad and complex humanities foundation, says Harvey Graff
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Texas senators move to ban tenure and diversity initiatives
State Senate has already passed one of three bills that would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who 鈥渁ttempt to compel鈥 certain beliefs, and ban what the legislation defines as...
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UCU marking boycott to go ahead after members reject offer
Academics聽to refuse to assess students鈥 work for an indefinite period, posing threat to this year鈥檚 graduations
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Harvard鈥檚 Bacow urges pushback against political threats
Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of聽Ron DeSantis
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Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings: a new framework
African rankings methodology looks beyond traditional research-focused metrics on teaching and research to include societal impact, writes Phil Baty
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Merge tertiary education funding models, Australian review told
Single system for accessing skills training and higher education would remove longstanding barriers between the two,聽lobby group claims
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Talking leadership: Annika 脰stman Wernerson on rebuilding trust
The rector of Stockholm鈥檚 Karolinska Institute takes charge of the world-leading medical school聽after the disruptions of a pandemic and an ethics scandal
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Problems with bank checks drive student visa refusals
Applicants聽from countries without differentiation agreements with the UK face battle to show they can support their studies financially
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Big university donors are distorting research agendas
Kenneth Griffin鈥檚 $300 million donation to Harvard is unusual in not being tied to pet ideological causes, says Naomi Oreskes聽聽
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Pakistani universities suspend operations amid soaring inflation
Huge hike in聽costs plunges institutions into dire situation as academics call on government to urgently raise higher education spending
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Liberal arts education is not a Western concept
Ancient India and China were the first civilisations to educate young people to become whole individuals, says Kyaw Moe Tun
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Open access is not enough. We need open equity
Publishers, libraries and funders must do what they can to ensure that no one is priced out of open-access publishing, says Mandy Hill
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Kent students condemn 鈥榗allous鈥 Brussels campus closure
UK鈥檚 鈥楨uropean university鈥 winds down operations at satellite site, blaming rising costs and recruitment challenges