Navalny’s killing highlights the need for HE to help preserve democracy
Russian studies is one of many disciplines that can and should loudly tell the story of how authoritarianism strips people of citizenship, says Ani Kokobobo
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Impact of Japanese international tuition fee hike debated
Tuition fees for foreign overseas in Japan are expected to rise above domestic ones for first time
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Gender bias still afflicts female academic leaders
Mutual support networks and mentoring can help more women attain senior positions, say Efthalia Chatzigianni and Bryony Whitmarsh
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‘Beyond frustrating’ for Palestinian refugee denied UK PhD visa
Amena El Ashkar was hoping to study a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics but her visa was rejected
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‘Academic solipsism’ risk from chatbot use, warns university head
Growing use of chatbots within higher education is likely to foster unoriginal and ‘solipsistic’ thought, says IE president
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Universities ‘should make common cause’ against political enmity
Competitors can be friends when government acts like your enemy, Sydney round table hears
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China prioritises research spending despite economic downturn
Central investment might go some way to mitigate declining spending by local government and industry
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UK funding crisis forces three more universities to cut jobs
Winchester, Surrey and Queen Mary latest to shed academic positions as industrial disputes heat up elsewhere
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Merging two major universities is a tense but rewarding Odyssey
No journey in strange new waters can be smooth sailing, but healthy conflicts have a place in innovation and transformation, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj
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University presses rack up legal bills over AI copyright breaches
London Book Fair discussion dominated by concern over large language models using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses
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Portuguese university apologises after sexual misconduct claims
Investigation follows publishing controversy that saw chapter detailing allegations withdrawn by Routledge
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Bangladesh and Vietnam ‘rising stars’ for student recruitment
India and China expected to remain top sending markets to 2030, but overall growth rate set to slow
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Courting controversy
As battles over industrial relations and identity politics rage, higher education’s fault lines are increasingly a matter for the courts. Is anyone winning?
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Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke
The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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Interview with Lucy Noakes
Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge