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Features and opinion editor of
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Margot Finn
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âfor a Labour government whose base is incredibly graduate heavy & a lot of whose MPs represent university seats, itâs sort of almost the antithesis of what youâd expect them to do,â said Jonathan Simons... perhaps due to the partyâs strategy of chasing non-graduate, right-wing leaning voters.' 2/2
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Needless to say, in the parts of my kids' secondary school where air conditioning exists at all, it is mostly (they tell me) broken.
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Who and what is to blame for the UK's redundancy crisis? We surveyed the views of almost 1,100 university staff - and the results don't make pleasant reading for managers...
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/he-has...
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about 2 months ago
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See:
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about 2 months ago
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Chris Havergal
2 months ago
UK University Redundancy Survey from
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out today - part one, focusing on experience of leavers. Plenty of data - with respondents torn on whether they want to stay in HE - but personal stories hit hardest
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...
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about 2 months ago
Survey of 1K+ UK university staff by
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: 93% say redundancies have affected morale, 77% strongly; 88% report increased workload, 64% strongly; 59% fear losing jobs in next 12 months, 26% strongly
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/he-has...
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Susannah Eckersley
2 months ago
30000 university jobs gone in the UK in 3 years. These are people who were working in all job types, at all levels from most junior to most senior.
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Times Higher Education (THE)
2 months ago
The results of Times Higher Educationâs UK University Redundancy Survey bring home the deep human impact of the redundancy crisis on those who have lost their jobs. Read Part 1 of our analysis here:
https://ow.ly/4bIx50YP8V2
#jobcuts
#highered
#edusky
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Times Higher Education (THE)
3 months ago
After winning a huge legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells
@jgro-the.bsky.social
about the impact of the case, how universities âstonewallâ fraud allegations and why she quit journalism to help whistleblowers in science #research #fraud
https://ow.ly/rYoy50YKuN2
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Lucien Heurtier
3 months ago
Excellent article from
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on the current "carnage" that theoretical physics and PPAN science in general are facing.
#UKRI
must react and propose a solution. If not, the government and the SITC must step in.
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The year I won an ERC grant, I expected years of uncertainty finally to crystallise into something solid. A lab. Independence to pursue ideas. A future that can be planned in more than 12-month increments. Instead, I learned how fragile a scientific career really is."
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Is striving for excellence a liability for Europeâs early-career precariat?
In principle, permanent positions are awarded to the most deserving â but perceptions remain that, in reality, many universities value connections over merit. Phillip Haubrock describes his struggles ...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/striving-excellence-liability-europes-early-career-precariat
3 months ago
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UK university staff: have you feared for your job at any point during the past two years? How confident are you that redundancies are less likely this year than they were last year? This is your last chance to let us know in our UK Redundancy Survey.
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UK university staff: a final chance to tell us your feelings about the redundancy wave
Whether you have direct experience of redundancies or not, and whatever your role is (or was) in the university, we are still keen to hear your views
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/uk-university-staff-final-chance-tell-us-your-feelings-about-redundancy-wave
4 months ago
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Times Higher Education (THE)
4 months ago
Have any of your colleagues been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? Whether you are an academic or professional services staff member, employed or unemployed, we are keen to hear your views in our UK University Redundancy Survey
https://ow.ly/b6BF50Yl6B3
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Do you work at a UK university? If so, have there been any recent redundancies of colleagues within or beyond your department or division? Do you agree that they were unavoidable? And whose fault were they? Please let us know in our UK Redundancy Survey.
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UK university staff: please complete our survey about redundancies
Whether you are an academic or professional services staff member, employed or unemployed, we are keen to hear your views
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/uk-university-staff-please-complete-our-survey-about-redundancies
4 months ago
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Adam Golberg
4 months ago
That this even has to exist...
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UK university staff: if your department/division has lost staff recently, how much has it increased your workload, damaged morale and worsened the student experience? Please let us know your views in our UK Redundancy Survey.
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UK university staff: please complete our survey about redundancies
Whether you are an academic or professional services staff member, employed or unemployed, we are keen to hear your views
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/uk-university-staff-please-complete-our-survey-about-redundancies
4 months ago
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Times Higher Education (THE)
4 months ago
Authoritarian regimes perceive many humanities and social sciences as useless and dangerous. But while their truths might be inconvenient, they are vital to preventing technological developments from tearing already frayed social fabrics, says
Saikat Majumdar
#AcademicSky
https://ow.ly/2YMB50YiIJn
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Times Higher Education (THE)
5 months ago
Who or what is to blame for the waves of redundancies at UK universities? Whether you are academic or professional staff, still employed or unemployed, we are anxious to hear your perspectives in our UK Redundancy Survey #AcademicSky #HigherEd
https://timeshighered.survey.fm/uk-redundancy-survey
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Times Higher Education (THE)
5 months ago
Have any of your colleagues recently been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? What has been the effect of redundancies on departmental morale? We are keen to hear your views
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UK university staff: please complete our survey about redundancies
Academic or professional staff, employed or unemployed, we are anxious to hear your perspectives
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/uk-university-staff-please-complete-our-survey-about-redundancies
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"As I watched him leave the grounds, I realised I was staring and that I couldnât get my teeth apart. I spent the rest of the shift trying to work out whether I was high or whether Iâd accidentally pressed âdouble shotâ on the coffee machine."
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Quicker police response times would suit (and shirt) campus security
As a first responder to thefts, attacks and student house parties gone wild, the prospect of faster emergency help sounds great, says George Bass
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/quicker-police-response-times-would-suit-and-shirt-campus-security
5 months ago
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India, too, is in uproar over if/when diversity politicies tip into reverse discrimination.
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/indi...
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Indiaâs new caste bias regulations have resulted in turmoil
The Supreme Courtâs suspension of the regulations highlights contention about when equity efforts tip into reverse discrimination, says Mukhtar Ahmad
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/indias-new-caste-bias-regulations-have-resulted-turmoil
5 months ago
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Chris Havergal
6 months ago
âBizarreâ linguistics paper claiming ancient Greeks forbade reference to water as âHâOâ retracted by Springer Nature journal amid disbelief âramblingâ and âmethodologically weakâ article was ever published
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre...
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âBizarreâ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature
Jordanian professorâs free-wheeling study is pulled and an editorial board member sacked after linguists criticised âextremely strangeâ article
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre-linguistics-paper-water-retracted-springer-nature
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Chris Havergal
7 months ago
Breaking: REF 2029 downgrades research culture weighting, reinstates five outputs per academic limit
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REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit
Several planned reforms to the UKâs Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-2029-downgrades-research-culture-restores-five-output-limit
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Chris Havergal
8 months ago
We're hiring at
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! A great opportunity to join us as a reporter and to lead our coverage of European higher education. Closing date 23 November
careers.timeshighereducation.com/jobs/6737419...
#journalistjob
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An article from a year ago but still extremely relevant
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/it-tim...
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"At the recent Labour Party conference, we were told to expect âclarity and coherenceâ. It is only a slight exaggeration to say, when it comes to the provision of skills, that the White Paper is more likely to create confusion and complexity," says Nick Hillman
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Skills White Paper: Clarity and coherence or confusion and complexity?
To understand the governmentâs approach to education, we must await more announcements. Letâs hope they go further, says Nick Hillman
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/skills-white-paper-clarity-and-coherence-or-confusion-and-complexity
9 months ago
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"The OfS will now have greater authority to intervene where courses are deemed to offer poor value â raising questions about whether the regulator is truly equipped to make such judgements, especially after recent criticisms of its own poor performance", says Diana Beech.
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Skills White Paper: Is extra oversight a fair price for sector stability?
Questions will be asked about the Office for Studentsâ fitness to take on extra powers over quality, agents and franchising, says Diana Beech
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/skills-white-paper-extra-oversight-fair-price-sector-stability
9 months ago
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Chris Havergal
9 months ago
Will superuniversities save UK HE? Six experts share their views
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-s...
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Will superuniversities save UK HE?
The quasi-merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich has raised questions about how many other higher education institutions might see an opportunity â or a necessity â to team up as financial p...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-superuniversities-save-uk-he
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Chris Havergal
9 months ago
Where now for the REF? Five very different views on how radical the changes should be
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Where now for the REF?
The Research Excellence Framework has been postponed for three months âto take stock and ensure alignment with the UK governmentâs priorities and vision for higher educationâ. But how radical should t...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/where-now-ref
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Times Higher Education (THE)
10 months ago
Opinion: The three-month pause in the Research Excellence Framework to re-examine the assessment of âpeople, culture and environmentâ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan
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The REFâs postponement raises hopes that sanity will prevail on PCE
The three-month pause to re-examine the assessment of âpeople, culture and environmentâ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refs-postponement-raises-hopes-sanity-will-prevail-pce
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10 months ago
Another bombshell REF announcement: radical change of direction at UKRI re research funding seems on the cards
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
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Universities failing on research culture could lose funding
Research England to use REF pause to consider whether institutions must meet baseline performance measures as a condition of receiving funds
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-failing-research-culture-could-lose-funding
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Chris Havergal
10 months ago
At UUK conference Patrick Vallance announces 3-month pause in REF process to make sure it is âproperly alignedâ to national priorities. Still on for 2029 but want to avoid it measuring the wrong things. Story soon at
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IoT also a great advert for academia. See this 2017 interview we did with Melvyn Bragg: "I just wanted to talk to academics on one subject and see what happensâ.
www.timeshighereducation.com/features/nev...
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10 months ago
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Times Higher Education (THE)
11 months ago
Academic Rachael Gunn one year on from the Olympics: âThings settle down and then some other crazy thing happens. Iâm the number two Halloween costume in the world, or everyoneâs wearing a T-shirt with my face on it. I live in a totally different realityâ
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Raygun: âI donât go on campus much. When I do, I try to keep a low profileâ
Cultural studies academic Rachael Gunnâs breakdancing performance at the Paris Olympics went viral for all the wrong reasons. One year on, she tells John Ross that although processing the ridicule has...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/raygun-i-dont-go-campus-much-when-i-do-i-try-keep-low-profile
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"The HOâs behaviour and policies make it obvious that the UK no longer wants even legal skilled migrants. And the constant recalibration required to stay compliant with shifting regulations leads to perpetual uncertainty and fatigue."
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The UKâs immigration hall of mirrors is making me reflect on my future
If the UK doesnât want skilled migrants any more, maybe my contributions would be better appreciated in the Global South, says Meron Wondemaghen
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uks-immigration-hall-mirrors-making-me-reflect-my-future
11 months ago
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I am pretty sure those are the lyrics of a Talking Heads song.
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11 months ago
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Where would âȘ@retractionwatch.com⏠be without the late Tom Lehrer's advice for academics? Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes Remember why the good Lord made your eyes So don't shade your eyes But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize Only be sure always to call it please "research"
11 months ago
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But is that focus inevitable when the research budget is defended by sector lobbyists on the basis of its industrial upshots?
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12 months ago
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Chris Havergal
12 months ago
How can a research grant proposal get an A grade from the ERC, but get marked down by a local funder? European researchers are left confused
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Research grant assessments under scrutiny amid disparities
Researchers call for improved national assessment processes as proposals receive different feedback at European level
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/research-grant-assessments-under-scrutiny-amid-disparities
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In light of Grok's latest far-right outbursts, see this recent piece on its previous failings - and how academics should be empowered to help ensure there are no repeats
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The humanities must have a role in overseeing AI âcensorshipâ
Restrictions on what models will discuss are necessary, but ill-informed blocks distort inquiry, say Lorna Waddington and Richard de Blacquiere-Clarkson
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/humanities-must-have-role-overseeing-ai-censorship
12 months ago
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"We have heard that ECRs or redundant staff should be protected or have portability, however while this is attractive, it is just not possible where there is no reliable indicator or way of knowing who these individuals are.â
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about 1 year ago
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Chris Havergal
about 1 year ago
Universities in England and NI lost ÂŁ5.4bn on research last year, and ÂŁ1.7bn on teaching domestic students - but made a ÂŁ3.2bn surplus on teaching international students, official analysis shows
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University research shortfall rises to over ÂŁ5 billion in England
Annual data shows universities in England and Northern Ireland face growing losses on research and teaching domestic students
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-research-shortfall-rises-over-ps5-billion-england
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"At last, a thoughtful and nuanced assessment of the use of AI."
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Could generative AI improve the REF?
The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UKâs Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden â or would its use undermine the whole po...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-generative-ai-improve-ref
about 1 year ago
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Chris Havergal
about 1 year ago
Could generative AI improve the Research Excellence Framework? Writers including
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@heroicendeavour.bsky.social
offer their views (with some brilliant illustrations, too, which AI has been nowhere near)
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-...
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 year ago
Opinion: The effort of staying compliant with fluctuating regulations diminishes the mental space for teaching, research and building belonging âïž Zahra Sharifonnasabi, Fleura Bardhi and Laetitia Mimoun
#AcademicSky
#EduSky
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UK immigration policy is destabilising international academicsâ careers
The effort of staying compliant with fluctuating regulations diminishes the mental space for teaching, research and building belonging, say Zahra Sharifonnasabi, Fleura Bardhi and Laetitia Mimoun
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-immigration-policy-destabilising-international-academics-careers
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 year ago
Could AI ease the burden of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UKâs Research Excellence Framework â or would its use undermine the whole point of REF panels? As
@jisc.bsky.social
consults on that question, four writers offer their views
#AcademicSky
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Could generative AI improve the REF?
The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UKâs Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden â or would its use undermine the whole po...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-generative-ai-improve-ref
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 year ago
Opinion: US society must reject the false dichotomy between supporting American interests and welcoming international contributors, says Fernando Reimers
#AcademicSky
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Trump's crackdown on international students is misguided and dangerous
USÂ society must reject the false dichotomy between supporting American interests and welcoming international contributors, says Fernando Reimers
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/trumps-crackdown-international-students-misguided-and-dangerous
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Pete Buttigieg
about 1 year ago
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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CNN
about 1 year ago
A federal judge has halted the Trump administration's ban on Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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Federal judge halts Trump administration ban on Harvardâs ability to enroll international students | CNN
A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administrationâs ban on Harvard Universityâs ability to enroll international students.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-05-23T16%3A04%3A47
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