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Jun 8

When fees fell and Africa’s top university appointed its third black leader, hopes were raised that South African HE was moving into a new era of equality. But funding pressures and governance failures still abound. By Patrick Jack

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Sector leaders and academics from across UK recognised in first King’s Birthday Honours list, including knighthoods for

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Steve West and

@QUBVChancellor

Ian Greer and damehood for

@MelanieWelham

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King’s Birthday Honours: knighthood for UUK president Steve West

Sector leaders and academics from across the UK are recognised in the first King’s Birthday Honours list

Average faculty salaries in the US have fallen sharply for the past three years relative to inflation, fuelling a two decade-high level of higher education labour activism, according to the nation’s main faculty grouping, writes Paul Basken

@pbasken

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Talking leadership:

@sgSMU

president Lily Kong tells

@PolaLem

that Singapore’s institutions ‘must carve their own path’

Talking leadership: Lily Kong on not trying to be Harvard or Oxford

Singapore Management University president Lily Kong says the country’s institutions ‘must carve their own path’

‘AI teaching leader’ IU, majority owned by private equity firm, adds Canadian university to portfolio alongside London banking education provider.

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reports

Germany’s largest university buys UK college and degree powers

‘AI teaching leader’ IU, majority owned by private equity firm, adds Canadian university to portfolio alongside London banking education provider

Marking boycott: half of Cambridge finalists might not graduate Acting vice-chancellor urges staff to end refusal to assess work due to ‘enormous’ impact on students, including nine out of 10 postgraduates, writes Tom Williams

@TWilliamsTHE

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Name, image and likeness ruling leads to stampede for American student athletes to cash in, plus ‘pay-to-play’ recruiting war

US college sports revolution after athletes gain image rights

Name, image and likeness ruling leads to stampede for student athletes to cash in, plus ‘pay-to-play’ recruiting war

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The Trudeau administration is preparing an overhaul of visa policies that aims, among other objectives, to more strategically distribute international students around Canada

Canada aims to spread out international students across country

As Trudeau concludes sweeping immigration review, minister sees value in greater geographic division of visa approvals

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The Canadian government has put a hold on the deportation of more than 700 Indian students who entered the country on fake admission offers

Canada puts evictions of Indian students on hold

Learners must beware ‘slick-talking agents’ and should get help from staff at their universities, says academic

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Research staff will not be obliged to submit outputs to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) as part of the biggest shake-up of the UK’s national research audit in its history, writes Jack Grove

@jgro_the

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On #THECampus: Three ways to make the most of Google Scholar’s ExCITATION plug-in Luca Cacciolatti explains how to use the journal-ranking tool, which can help researchers quickly identify relevant and high-quality sources bit.ly/3PfnJwk

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Opinion: Universities cannot police sexual misconduct by themselves – the burden should be shared, says David Hardstaff

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Universities cannot police sexual misconduct by themselves

Carrying out this increasingly herculean task effectively is beyond most universities’ capacity. The burden should be shared, says David Hardstaff

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Online education firm FutureLearn has appointed Ian Howell as its new managing director, writes Chris Havergal

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You wake up in a locked room…Using digital escape rooms to promote student engagement Game-based learning can help students learn and develop skills such as critical thinking, as Steven Montagu-Cairns

@StevenCairns4

explains on #THECampus bit.ly/4678Lic

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REF 2028 reforms set to end requirement to submit all researchers Universities will be allowed to submit dozens of outputs by an academic – or none at all – to next Research Excellence Framework under proposed new rules, writes Jack Grove

@jgro_the

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The National Institutes of Health claims success in its efforts to steer more grant money toward younger scientists, saying it has had record-high numbers in each of the past three years

More early career scientists winning NIH funding

Leading US science funding agency reports three straight years of record levels of awards to its early-stage applicants, with some gender and racial gains

On #THECampus: Why knowledge exchange is important for universities A guide to what knowledge exchange is, how it impacts institutions and their communities and helpful examples of knowledge exchange activities bit.ly/3PftMB8

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Our new institute for global security is a model for avoiding dystopia International collaboration on tackling global problems has never been more important, say Chris Husbands

@Hallam_VC

and John Dewar bit.ly/442L2xH

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Embracing project-based learning It benefits both healthcare students and host organisations during clinical placements. Roma Forbes

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and Michael Donovan outline the practicalities of supporting authentic workforce experience on #THECampus bit.ly/3CvxP4P

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Industry-university links are key to fulfilling India’s potential It is widely accepted that Indian curricula need to become more relevant. Links with the business community are key, says Amarjit Singh bit.ly/3X4tZc8

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All you need to know about submissions and assessment for #REF2028: how will proposals to redraw submissions and assessments affect university staff and institutions? THE’s guide to the 2028 Research Excellence Framework explains bit.ly/3J9CEEn

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Enquiry-based learning in five steps This type of learning bridges the gap between theory and practice, enabling students to learn by doing. On #THECampus Nicky Goodall shares five tips for successfully bringing it into your teaching bit.ly/3p53abr

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Are South African universities falling? When Rhodes and fees fell, hopes rose that South African higher education was entering a new era of equality. But several years on, funding pressures and governance failures abound.

@paddywjack

reports from Cape Town bit.ly/45NXy5V

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Co-branding the student journey from further to higher education: facilitating an early link with HE through campus visits and help with applications can boost progression to and success at university,

@CanterburyCCUni

’s Melanie Pitcher says on #THECampus bit.ly/3PeLZPd

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Generative AI like #ChatGPt and its potential to boost plagiarism has sparked fear in HE. However, the technology can also improve and accelerate academic writing if applied constructively and positively, says

@brookeszucs

@UQ_News

on #THECampus bit.ly/3JdzJdV

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Sector leaders and academics from across UK recognised in first King’s Birthday Honours list, including knighthoods for

@VCUWE

Steve West and

@QUBVChancellor

Ian Greer and damehood for

@MelanieWelham

#kingsbirthdayhonours

King’s Birthday Honours: knighthood for UUK president Steve West

Sector leaders and academics from across the UK are recognised in the first King’s Birthday Honours list

The acting vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has pleaded with staff to mark students’ work, warning that thousands will not be able to graduate as planned because of industrial action, writes Tom Williams

@TWilliamsTHE

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More play to engage students and deepen learning: play is a powerful learning tool that boosts engagement, exploration and community. On #THECampus

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outline some of the ways it can best be used bit.ly/3PcxoUu

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Nobelist Gregg Semenza hit with rising tide of retractions: Johns Hopkins professor confronted with repeated instances of image manipulation, although Harvard peer William Kaelin sees no implications for discoveries behind 2019 honour.

@pbasken

reports bit.ly/3Pd9bNO

Google and IBM’s multimillion-dollar partnership with top Japanese university

@UTokyo_News_en

to boost the country’s quantum computing capacity can develop young talent and demonstrate the continued importance of blue-sky university research, scholars say. bit.ly/3NbAxB8

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On #THECampus: Spice up your lectures – engagement strategies for higher education Ibham Veza and Davannendran Chandran provide an exhaustive checklist of practical strategies for captivating students and retaining their attention bit.ly/3CuTR7H

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Technology firms Google and IBM back

@UTokyo_News_en

’s quantum leap with $100m funding: massive grant “could appear small” in future, says scholar, as quantum computing field enjoys influx of industry money.

@PolaLem

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The cost of the latest Research Excellence Framework was £471 million – almost double the price tag of the 2014 exercise, a report has revealed. #REF

Cost of REF doubled to £471 million for 2021 exercise

Policies to curb university expenditure on research assessment exercise failed to stop soaring costs, report finds

The Canadian government has put a hold on the deportation of more than 700 Indian students who entered the country on fake admission offers

Canada puts evictions of Indian students on hold

Learners must beware ‘slick-talking agents’ and should get help from staff at their universities, says academic

#REF2028: all you need to know about submissions and assessment: how will proposals to redraw submissions and assessments affect university staff and institutions? THE’s guide to the 2028 Research Excellence Framework explains more bit.ly/3J9CEEn

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