Interview with Hazel Carby
The Yale professor talks about racism in post-war Britain, mixing the personal and the academic in her writing and her advice to her younger self
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Thomas Symons, 1929-2021
Tributes paid to ‘intelligent, witty and compassionate leader’ who transformed Canadian studies and forged a major new collegiate universityÂ
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Only academics can run universities effectively
The tired stereotype of the unworldly scholar has often been used to justify giving excessive influence over university management to businesspeople and administrators. There is ample evidence that...
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Can universities manufacture a post-industrial future for the Midwest?
Freshly inaugurated US president Joe Biden owes his election victory to swing states in America’s Rust Belt. But is his plan to revitalise them by creating ‘millions of new manufacturing and...
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Academics are promoting the wrong kind of rigour
My student is right to wonder out loud why learning in college must be a forced march rather than a playful adventure, says Gregory Skutches
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21 January 2021 digital edition
Leading the way: can universities make the Rust Belt shine again?
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Shakespeare in your living room: How AR can transform teaching
It won’t be long before we’re all looking to immersive technology to further students’ learning, says Mary Matheson
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Trump pardons wealthy parent in college admissions scandal
Outgoing US president cites USC trustee in rationale for helping fellow Florida developer
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Experts doubt lasting change to academic work practices post-Covid
Institutions have introduced four-day weeks during lockdowns, but scholars suspect most changes will be temporary
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Universities negotiate with lenders as pandemic finances bite
Warnings that banking covenants could be breached in some scenarios emerge in latest accounts
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Chinese universities told student cheating could cost them funding
Campuses rated below par for three years in a row could be asked to suspend undergraduate recruitment
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The future of the traditional lecture is up for debate once more
Universities should partner with students instead of treating them like passive recipients of our superior knowledge, says Simone Buitendijk
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The Trumpian guide to getting ahead in research
Only losers focus on excellent science. Better to cook the books, spin the wheel and trust to cronies, say Robert de Vries and John Jerrim
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Teaching-only contracts: 20,000 moved on to terms in five years
Growth of academics on such terms precedes pandemic and REF census
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UK overseas recruitment ‘could bounce back next year’
British Council expert says universities should be prepared for more deferrals, cancellations and late decision-making over the next 12 months