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Is it time for Ukraine’s exiled academics to return?
Two years after Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to overcome, is it time for Ukraine’s academic diaspora to come home?
Lectures in question as paid work pushes attendance even lower
The emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt a review of university lecturing, says psychologist
If abusive lawyers can be banned from practising, why not academics?
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe
Why UK universities are really going broke
Redundancies and course closures follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities, argues Martin Mills
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