Lecturer-student sex banned at six English and Welsh universities Authors of new book on sexual harassment in higher education call for blanket ban on intimate relationships between teaching staff and students Anna McKie 9月 17日
UK student vote ‘shifting further towards Labour’ Gap between party and Conservatives widened in student-dense seats in polls over past decade Grace Browne 9月 17日
Sunetra Gupta: social media attacks ‘stifling coronavirus debate’ Oxford epidemiologist and lockdown critic says ‘puritanical’ criticism of idea of herd immunity has chilled legitimate scientific and policy debate Jack Grove 9月 16日
Campus free speech legislation ‘to?target students’ unions’ Bill that would extend statutory duties on free speech to unions and threaten fines under discussion John Morgan 9月 16日
Cutting face-to-face teaching ‘best way’ to control Covid spread Study that uses data from a UK university to model typical campus scenario warns fifth of students could catch virus within term one without interventions Simon Baker 9月 15日
Dutch aim to stop academics working at weekends Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven says too much research funding is now competitive, leading to intense work stress David Matthews 9月 15日
Ethnic minority sociologists ‘face hostility’ when teaching race Study calls for race issues to be embedded into curricula, not taught as an ‘add-on’ Ellie Bothwell 9月 15日
Prospective UK students prioritise teaching quality Winchester polling puts tuition well ahead of research reputation in eyes of teenagers Grace Browne 9月 15日
Harassment hotspots should lose research funding, says Solloway UK science minister hits out at ‘spurious’ research metrics and ‘publish or perish’ lab culture Jack Grove 9月 14日
Sally Hunt paid extra ?400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job ‘Settlement’ brought to light by report on union leaders’ pay from pressure group Simon Baker 9月 14日
NSS overhaul shows ‘dangerous’ drift towards graduate outcomes Some criticisms around survey may be justified but there are major risks in a wholesale replacement, warn experts Simon Baker 9月 14日
