The vast majority of post-92 universities in the UK are facing job cuts, with a quarter seeing more than 50 roles at risk while staff who remain potentially face worse terms and conditions, writes Tom Williams Thomas Williams reports bit.ly/4aq9P2l

The employability agenda corrupts educational and personal values

Knowledge is commodified by the prioritisation of economic imperatives over social and democratic goals in educational policymaking, says Dr Zahid Naz
timeshighereducation.com/blog/employabi… via Times Higher Education

The absence of incentives and rewards for moving away from the “sage on the stage” approach means lousy lectures live on, says Eric Mazur, the Harvard University educationalist behind flipped learning
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What an enormous joy and privilege to hear my 13 year old nephew singing this evening in Evensong at Peterborough Cathedral - and what a beautiful cathedral it is!

Well worth the journey!

⁦Peterborough Cathedral⁩

The Nobel prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan has said he might not have come to the UK if the current “unfriendly” visa regime for migrant scientists had been in place, writes Jack Grove Jack Grove bit.ly/49ljZA2

University of Kent vice-chancellor to depart after restructure and deficit warning: Karen Cox to step down next month as University of Kent grapples with projected £30 million deficit. Thomas Williams reports
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This is why 'second' unis are so important: working class students from Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol etc. who need to stay local can go to Brookes, Ruskin, or UWE, and eroding these prevents poorer students from attending in their home county, and even at all.

“If you want to be a global leader in science, you can’t put up these unnecessary barriers,” continued Professor Ramakrishnan...

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“Unfriendly” visa regime would’ve halted my UK move: The Nobel Prize-winning former The Royal Society president Venki Ramakrishnan tells Jack Grove about his concerns over the UK’s “too high” visa costs, anti-ageing science and older academics who refuse to retire
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Libraries are now some of the most dynamic and buzzy places in our universities. Here's a real insight into the team recognised as the cream of the crop last year, from our #THEAwards partner Kortext.
Entries for THE Awards 2024 open 11 April.

Some elite universities in England continue to admit just a fraction of their student body from within their own region, HESA UK analysis reveals, while other institutions in NI and Scotland have little if any intake from outside their borders
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HE&Me: the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers, co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (@spununderground), discusses the importance of fungal networks, the optimism of academic life and why science is creative
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Aside from the numerical illiteracy in the headline, the idea that we simply “use Google Translate” in the NHS displays a breathtaking ignorance of the importance of cultural competence and sensitivity in providing quality healthcare.

For clarity, this story is now clearly labelled an April Fool ...

Universal exams can fix the grade inflation crisis

With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison
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Personal statements scrapped over growing ChatGPT use
Singapore Management University provost Timothy Clark says reforms will push students away from using generative AI in admissions statements, writes Jack Grove Jack Grove bit.ly/3PHnnOv

Scientists oppose retractions for racism, sexism and fraud
Poll of researchers finds little support for pulling scholarly papers of those found guilty of objectionable personal behaviour, writes Jack Grove Jack Grove bit.ly/3PBKObY

Humanities scholars could lose potentially career-making opportunities to publish their first book if proposed new open access rules for the UK’s next Research Excellence Framework are implemented, academics have warned, writes Jack Grove Jack Grove bit.ly/3VFvrD4

Wonder where Times got their idea for a splash using uni accounts to show how much fee income Russell Group draws from overseas students? Times Higher Education did the exact same thing (with a rather more nuanced explanation of driving factors) - a month ago. timeshighereducation.com/news/russell-g…

'Unbearable' that scholarship at Goldsmiths, University of London under threat from 'yet more mass redundancies', says Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Goldsmiths UCU timeshighereducation.com/news/michael-r… via Thomas Williams