SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dr. Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University in the UK. She is also a Research Management Committee member of the Global Centre for Higher Education with headquarters at the University of Oxford. Janja’s research focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and higher education markets.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. A Concordat and Agreements Review (April 2023) formed a joint attempt to define ‘research culture’ initiated by Universities UK, UKRI and Wellcome. Under the Oxford and Cambridge Act (1877).

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Currently, there are postdoctoral positions being advertised at (among others) the University of Oxford , Lancaster University , University of Birmingham , London School of Economics , and University of Manchester , all of which start below the new salary threshold. Early-career posts at universities often start at less than £38,000.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I have never found student life more difficult, 16 November ).

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CAPD

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Five MIT graduate students have just returned from The Eighth Annual AHRC International Conference , hosted in Oxford UK from September 18th-20th. Through a partnership with the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC doctoral training partnership., MIT students are invited to submit papers to this prestigious conference for consideration.

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Study and Go Abroad

MAY 21, 2023

If you’re interested in studying abroad in the UK, check out this breakdown of how you can make it possible! Don’t worry, here’s a crash course on everything you need to know about studying in the UK — from your initial research to the application process. Are you considering studying outside of Canada?

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Study and Go Abroad

MARCH 14, 2023

Have you thought about studying abroad in the UK? The UK is a popular study abroad destination for students because you can explore the world while you earn a degree. A bonus of UK degrees is most are typically shorter than ones in Canada. The Russell Group is an association of 24 self-selected universities located in the UK.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University in the UK. She is also a Research Management Committee member of the Global Centre for Higher Education, with headquarters at the University of Oxford.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As a college based in the UK, the choice and opportunity for adults reentering education tends to be limited. The UK is not alone in declining levels of mature students. Flexible learning: At Oxford Business College, we have a community of campuses that allow learners from across the country to access education.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

I have used the UK as the basis of my argument for recognising the importance of governance as a contributory discipline to higher education studies. This was a phrase that had little traction in the UK until the constitution of the former polytechnics was first published in 1992).

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

Higher ed leaders looking to not only expand their underrepresented student population to include diverse communities but to ensure they succeed can actually replicate a comprehensive program from the University of Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College in the UK. But it’s quite different in the UK, as I understand it.

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Buddy4Study

JUNE 21, 2021

Tuition Fees in Australia: The tuition fees in Australian universities are relatively lower than that of the USA, UK and other countries. Tuition Fees in New Zealand: Education fee is comparatively lower in New Zealand than in other famous destinations like the US and UK. Best Country to Study Abroad – United Kingdom (UK).

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SRHE

JULY 28, 2023

The speakers represented a range of UK HEI contexts, as well as Australia and Spain, and a variety of professional roles including academic integrity leads, lecturers of different disciplines and emeritus professors. I am looking forward to the ongoing sessions and forum discussions. Thanks very much to SRHE for organising this event.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The first part of this (HS1) was achieved some years ago through investment in infrastructure connecting the UK with the rest of Europe. HS2 has of course reinforced the golden triangle, in line with longstanding bipartisan government policy, but that means it has so far only reached as far north as Oxford and Cambridge.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The establishment of a range of subjects identified as ‘disciplines’ suitable for study in higher education is not much more than a century old in Britain, arriving with the broadening of the university curriculum during the nineteenth century and the creation of new universities to add to Oxford and Cambridge and the existing Scottish universities.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2024

[1] The ITV programme ‘Mr Bates v The Post Office’ was shown on British TV during the first week of January 2024 and has generated in the UK a media firestorm and a swift government response. Or just Google it.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

The Committee, with a remit “to consider matters relating to industry, including the policies of His Majesty’s Government to promote industrial growth, skills and competitiveness, and to scrutinise the work of UK regulators”, published 12 questions on which it invited evidence.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

There were other overshoots: in History, Cambridge submitted 170%, Oxford 120%, perhaps linked to college staff not based in a department. The 2020 QS league tables show elite UK universities drifting downwards despite favourable funding and policy preferentiality aiming to achieve the exact opposite. for output to 62% overall quality.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2023

A graduate of Oxford University with a Master’s in Management and Chinese, Daniel has been featured on CNBC, BBC News, and Bloomberg for his work in developing global employability programs. You are definitely not a UK player, per se. You sound like you’re from the UK. I’m still sticking with the UK, US, and Australia.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Until recently the Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology and Director of the at Oxford, he takes positions that lie outside today’s secular liberal consensus. Few ethicists, however, are as likely to provoke outrage as Nigel Biggar.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Sue : Successful examples of hybrid modes of learning are set to continue, so yes.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Vice-chancellors from 24 leading institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, were briefed on the threat by the domestic security service’s director general, Ken McCallum, and National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) chief, Felicity Oswald.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly claimed they were denied important workplace rights for 15 years Two academics who sued Oxford University for employing them on “sham contracts” as gig economy workers, have won their claim for employee status in a ruling that could have implications for other higher education workers on precarious contracts.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Scottish institution once again finishes ahead of Oxford and Cambridge in the Guardian’s 2024 rankings View the full guide St Andrews has cemented its lead as the best university in the country, pulling further away from Oxford and Cambridge in the latest Guardian University Guide. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We’re not sliding back to those days – we never left them behind. Working-class students comprise around 20% of undergraduates at the 24 Russell Group universities and an even lower percentage of postgraduates, with those who were entitled to free school meals comprising fewer than 4% of undergraduates at these universities.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest Major fossil fuel companies have committed tens of millions of pounds in funding to UK universities since 2022, it can be revealed, despite many of these institutions having actively pledged to divest from oil and gas. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 29, 2023

Former professor who argues trans people cannot expect all rights afforded by biological sex is due to speak at Oxford Union Kathleen Stock, the gender-critical feminist whose address to Oxford university students on Tuesday has prompted planned protests, has insisted that she is a “moderate” and has a right to cause upset to the trans community.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Prof Irene Tracey tells assembly free speech has been ‘centre stage’ at university during her first year in post Oxford’s vice-chancellor has said she was “deeply saddened” by the abuse and attacks aimed at the university’s transgender staff and students during her first year in the post, including the controversy which surrounded an appearance by (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Case brought by two creative writing lecturers will draw on landmark 2021 supreme court gig economy ruling Two academics are suing Oxford University for employing them as gig economy workers in a case which draws on the landmark ruling that gave Uber drivers the right to paid holidays and a pension.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Astrophoria programme aims to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds fulfil their potential When Jessica Neate told her friends in Leicester that she was going to study at Oxford University, they didn’t believe her. And I said: I am!”

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Letter claims student union trying to force debating society to disinvite former university professor over transgender views A group of Oxford academics claim “coercion and financial threats” are being used to force the Oxford Union debating club to cancel an appearance by Kathleen Stock.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Campaign group calls for institutions to be accountable via short-term assessments after 59% missed goals The majority of UK universities have failed to meet their carbon reduction targets, figures reveal. The sector had a goal to reduce emissions directly controlled by institutions by 43% between 2005-06 and 2020-21. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

University follows other institutions in removing titles of family who make OxyContin painkiller The University of Oxford will cut its ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth came from addictive opioid drugs, removing the family’s name from buildings, galleries and positions funded through their donations.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield College The renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

Concerns that ‘cancel culture’ is blighting universities appear unfounded, according to OfS report Nearly nine in 10 students in England feel free to express their opinions and beliefs, according to a government-backed survey that contrasts with claims of widespread “cancel culture” on campuses.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Issue blown out of proportion, says Matt Cook, after appointment of ‘free speech tsar’ for higher education Oxford University’s new professor of LGBTQ+ history has accused the government of “fanning a culture war” over freedom of speech, insisting it is alive and well in higher education.

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