UCLA gets blowback for pursuit of minority-serving label
Wayne State president calls major research institution inappropriate destination for Hispanic-focused funding
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To ‘decolonise’ education, we need to ask different questions
Universities often reproduce colonial logics by exploiting, commodifying and diluting the very ‘thing’ that was to set us free, says Manvir Grewal
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Call to end gender quotas in Chinese university admissions
Female students face barriers in fields such as military studies and mining
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Rethink China research links or face backlash, UK campuses told
Absence of sector-wide information regarding Sino-British research invites political attack from China hawks, warns study led by prime minister’s brother
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Careers Clinic: how to manage your workload when working from home
THE’s Careers Clinic brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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The health of UK language study is lost in translation
Grim statistics on single-honours enrolments belie an explosion in joint-honours provision, says Katherine Astbury
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen, by Linda Colley
Lincoln Allison enjoys a broad, sometimes speculative account of the mania for written constitutions that took hold in the 1750s
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US accrediting agency rejected as wider battles lie ahead
Demise of ACICS, favoured by for-profits, still leaves larger problem of venue shopping
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Academics aren’t content creators, and it’s regressive to make them so
A video by a professor for only their class is akin to the single-copy, handwritten book disseminated to just one room of people, says David Kellermann
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Conference suspends Google sponsorship after ethics experts’ exit
Departures of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell has prompted academics to ask if they should reconsider links with the technology giant
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More funding but less freedom for Hong Kong universities
Observers detect message that caution on criticism is price of increased funding, but suspect balancing act will be difficult to sustain
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Academic suggests no platforming ‘words or ideas’, not speakers
SOAS scholar says free speech is not an on/off switch and speakers could be invited on certain terms
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Covid places new obstacles in way of academic refugees
Charity helped Iraqi researcher to escape aftermath of Islamic State terror to fulfil his dream of studying for a PhD in safety
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Let’s downgrade US college sports and invest in student health
The brutal cost-cutting demanded by Covid-19 may finally see intercollegiate athletics cut down to size, says Bruce Svare
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More female leaders would benefit both universities and societies
Progress is being made but much still could and should to be done to boost women’s advancement, says Helen Bartlett