Jack Grove
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Times Higher Education deputy features editor & reporter on research and research policy, including funding, academic publishing, ethics and misconduct.
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk 02-08-2011 10:39:02
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Among v-cs responding to Times Higher Education’s survey 20% said they expected to do better on domestic recruitment this year, but 37% expected to do worse; 62% said they expected their international recruitment to decline this year – 25% “significantly”.
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Craig Mahoney paid £515K for five-and-a-half month stint as University of Law vice-chancellor, including £340K pay-off. That's about £4.5K a day... timeshighereducation.com/news/v-c-paid-… via Paddy Jack
I wrote about Motherhood and Academia for Times Higher Education, drawing from research & collaboration done on grant funding & (child)care costs in the UK. DevGeogsRG GFGRG Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) St Andrews Geography & SD
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Great to see my article on the Times Higher Education features page today. Very encouraged by the reaction this important piece is getting! Dr. Elizabeth A. Faulkner Cathal Rogers Annie Abelman Jessica Hope PregnantThenScrewed
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Research quality is more evenly spread across the UK than funding or output, finds analysis of performance by distance from capital, suggesting the golden triangle is “no more golden” than other regions’ research and may benefit from “toxic cultural bias”.
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Research conducted in London-Cambridge-Oxford golden triangle “no more golden” than other regions’, says Higher Education Policy Institute Clarivate study which argues research quality is more evenly spread across UK than funding or outputs timeshighereducation.com/news/golden-tr… via John Morgan
A must read timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-acad…, I had exhausting fertility treatments and got pregnant on a fixed term contract,when I saw a permanent post in my field opening when my baby was just a few days old I had to apply. Sleep deprived and breastfeeding I competed for the job I have
During the pandemic after a deeply traumatic birth, University of Liverpool made me, a single mum, redundant with a baby to support. Today, I tell Times Higher Education why unis must do more to support precarious staff with families. PregnantThenScrewed University of Liverpool UCU Won Its Pensions Back Dr. Elizabeth A. Faulkner timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-acad…
“To frame entirely legitimate use of the student visa and graduate route as somehow now constituting abuse or misuse is to attempt to rewrite history.”
Jamie Arrowsmith Universities UK International
‘Small but outstanding’ English research units get £156 million
Awards seek to ‘support the sustained enhancement of research capacity’ across regions, writes Jack Grove Jack Grove bit.ly/3vBLqHu
This is a really interesting project: The University of Edinburgh to recycle heat from supercomputers to warm homes timeshighereducation.com/news/edinburgh… via Thomas Williams
Top UK laboratories adjust as Wellcome Trust cuts core funding timeshighereducation.com/news/top-uk-la… via Jack Grove
Fees for foreign students ‘a sign of what’s to come’ in Argentina
New president introduces legislation that would allow universities to charge, but many may be reluctant to do so, writes Tom Williams Thomas Williams bit.ly/3vG7Ua8
How can higher education support deaf academics?
Progress made by deaf scholars in recent years is ‘fragile’ in current climate, according to researcher appointed UK’s first deaf professor in deaf studies, writes Tom Williams Thomas Williams bit.ly/4aKN9ul
Great news that access to the physical books, manuscripts etc., in the British Library will be restored from 15 January. Hoorah! Many congratulations and thanks to British Library staff for their hard work in restoring these core services: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…