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‘People’s commission’ to examine future of water industry in England and Wales

Inquiry set up by academics and campaigners to rival ‘too limited’ government-established commission

The Guardian - UK

‘Teaching to an empty hall’: is the changing face of universities eroding standards of learning?

Voluntary attendance. Online classes. Student numbers swelling. Australian campuses look very different today – and many academics don’t like it

The Guardian - AU

Tony Burke says he called Creative Australia chief executive before board meeting when Biennale selection rescinded

Arts minister – who has denied political interference – says chief executive told him the board would meet to discuss Khaled Sabsabi’s selection

The Guardian - AU

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‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics

The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color

The Guardian - US

Alan McCarthy obituary

Other lives: Microbiologist at Liverpool University who helped refugee academics find new homes and jobs

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes

Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

The Guardian - UK

"My parents were academics and not thrilled about me joining a thrash metal band." Testament's Alex Skolnick talks thrash, Clash Of The Titans and what it was like joining Ozzy Osbourne's band

Testament’s six-string superstar reflects on the chaos of the Bay Area, guesting with Lamb Of God and studying with jazz legends

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Teenage Olympic Gold Medalist Balances School And Track Success

Quincy Wilson, a young track and field champion, excels in balancing athletics and academics while maintaining a humble and dedicated approach to his pursuits.

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10 Best Study Tips for International Students by EssayPro: Boost Your Performance

Adapting to a new education system, culture, and study habits can be challenging for international students. Balancing academics with a new environment often feels overwhelming. However, success becomes attainable when you use the right strategies ...

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‘Many look to Northern Ireland for hope’: how a Belfast university became a world leader in conflict resolution

Academics draw on lived experience in their global peacebuilding work as they foster dialogue between opposing groups and look to give victims a voice

The Guardian - UK

Law experts demand inquiry into Met policing of pro-Palestine protest

Forty academics write to home secretary over weekend’s ‘dangerous assault’ on the right to protest

The Guardian - UK

Common drugs like ibuprofen could be associated with reduced risk of dementia

Repurposing current drugs to tackle dementia is an ‘urgent priority’, academics say, but other experts warn more work is needed before they can be used to help treat the disease

The Independent UK

Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture

The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance

The Guardian - UK

Universities are mapping where local news outlets are still thriving − and where gaps persist

Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems.

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The Conversation

With precarious jobs, work identities shift — including for contract academics

More than 2.1 million Canadians today work in temporary, part-time or otherwise unstable jobs. For these workers, the ideal of a “standard employment relationship” — the predominant model for employment for decades in the second half of the 20th century — no longer defines their employment experiences or expectations.

The Conversation

The City Symposium: How communities can come together to address their problems

Imagine your community is facing a thorny, complex problem. Let’s consider two scenarios.

The National (Scotland)

How a Viktor Orbán-backed populist think tank is stoking Scotland’s culture war

WHEN MCC Brussels – a soft power outpost of right-wing Hungarian president Viktor Orbán’s privately run “pet” University, Mathias Corvinus…

Dynamite News

AI can help in identifying hidden hazards of chemical mixtures in rivers, says study

A novel methodology developed by academics at the University of Birmingham shows how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) approaches can assist in discovering potentially dangerous chemical chemicals in rivers by monitoring their impacts on small water fleas (Daphnia). Read further on Dynamite News:

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The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of American Academics

An interesting empirical study. (Updated)

The Independent UK

Professor who fled Putin’s war warns Kremlin is playing ‘Russian roulette with lives’

INTERVIEW: Nearly 400 scholars have fled Russia, Belarus and Ukraine since the start of the war. One of them narrates his ordeal to Arpan Rai

Sports Illustrated

How College Football Playoff Teams Are Balancing Academics With Sport

Four teams playing in the first round are prepping for the games and taking the biggest tests of the semester this week.

The National (Scotland)

Details revealed for Scotonomics' 2025 Festival of Economics

THE details for Scotland’s leading festival of economics has been announced – including top academics and international policymakers.

The Guardian - UK

Voters broadly accept Reeves’s £40bn of tax rises, research shows

Almost half of those surveyed by Bristol academics said increases were ‘necessary’ to improve public services

The Conversation

Death threats, phone tapping and stalking: the consequences academics can face from sharing their research

When she passed her PhD viva, literature researcher Ally Louks posted a picture of herself and her thesis on X (formerly Twitter) in November 2024. The photo shared her thesis title: “Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose”. The post garnered over 11,000 responses, some deeply…

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Swedish academics suffer widespread threat and harassment – most of it from their own colleagues and students

Last week, Ally Louks (now Dr. Louks), an academic at the University of Cambridge, posted a picture of herself on the social media site X with her fresh PhD thesis titled “Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose”. The post received a surprising amount of attention…

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