Australian universities struggle to cover domestic teaching costs
Narrowing financial buffers raise questions over Australian universities’ goals of being comprehensive
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Decline in soft skills ‘driven by trivialisation of humanities’
Treating the sciences and the humanities as separate worlds does employers and students no favours, says award-winning interdisciplinarian
Identify outreach students nationally, says report
Experts propose ‘national widening access cohort’ as alternative to widely criticised POLAR measure
Closer China-Russia ties ‘could shift academic freedom norms’
Endorsement of new partnership by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin may be reaction to US cold shoulder
China ‘matching West’ on access and participation
China is now on a par with the West in its capacity to service the higher education needs of its own population, a review suggests.
US House backs increased funding for education and research
Final budget, pending Senate and White House input, may be slightly less generous
Big-name business schools ‘give students less teaching time’
Vast resources channelled into research, analysis of business schools finds
Journal articles ‘should cost £300 to publish’
Calculation by open access campaigners questions supposedly unnecessary spending by publishers on lobbying, marketing and executive pay
Academics oppose advertising heads of department posts externally
Leeds accused of attempting to extend control of central management by ending practice of selecting heads of school from within the faculty
Paper rejected after plagiarism detector stumped by references
Editors say episode demonstrates need for humans to review work of software
