Leicester staff vote for strike action over job cuts
Union passes motion in favour of industrial action over risk to 145 staff
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Horizon funding ‘up for debate again’ before UK spending review
Future association funding ‘fairly secure’ but must be discussed again with Treasury, says business secretary
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Zoom pulls back from blocking controversial academic talks
Video platform made powerful by pandemic agrees to largely let universities police content
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Walter LaFeber, 1933-2021
Tributes paid to ‘the best thing that’s happened to Cornell in the last half-century’
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Interview with Connson Locke
The LSE management expert describes how workers can gain confidence to speak up, the culture shock of academia and what she learned from a drag king workshop
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Caution urged as vaccine passports rolled out for campus returns
US and Israeli institutions lead way on demanding immunisation but leading epidemiologist questions added value of ‘green pass’
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The week in higher education – 15 April 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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15 April 2021 digital edition
Viral revolution: how has Covid-19 changed research culture?
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Peace is in peril but universities can make a difference
Celebrating diversity, reforming curricula and working closely with local communities are all ways in which higher education institutions can better foster peacebuilding, says Rocky Tuan
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Axeing London weighting cash ‘will push universities into red’
London Higher says government proposal will ‘take away a lifeline’ for city’s universities
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Bullying up: academic ‘incivility’ exerts heavy toll on deans
Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on making the ‘disordered cosmos’ add up
‘The first Black woman on the tenure track in theoretical cosmology’ tells Matthew Reisz about her struggles to reconcile a pristine childhood image of science with the reality she confronts by using...
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Has the pandemic changed research culture – and is it for the better?
Covid-19 has prompted an explosion in preprints but has curtailed networking and underlined the extra pressures on women and junior academics. Simon Baker asks whether the pandemic era is a dark blip...
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Cuts to international research are a wrong turn for a country going global
The UK has an ambitious R&D road map but the necessary steps must be taken by politicians and funding bodies, says Andrew Thompson
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Public funding for European universities holds up despite Covid
Three countries even received double-digit increases in 2020, but with so much new government debt, some fear cuts could be in store further down the line