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Last month, the Australian Academy of Science condemned the country’s ongoing review of research for ignoring a long-term funding decline that has left basic research at ‘breaking point’. Was that a rhetorical overstatement or a sober statement of fact?
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Want your students to master respectful debate across cultures? These eight tips, from planning to agreeing on definitions, are a great place to start: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-foster-debate-multicultural-classrooms #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
How to foster debate in multicultural classrooms
If educators want their students to hone the skills of respectful debate across cultural boundaries, these eight tips – including planning and agreeing definitions – offer a place to start
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December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Students need to be able to think critically to face tomorrow’s challenges. Here’s how co-creating in the classroom can get them ready: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three-ways-use-cocreation-embed-critical-thinking #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Three ways to use co-creation to embed critical thinking
Students need critical thinking skills to deal with the challenges the future holds. Here’s how co-creation in the classroom can help prepare them
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December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Think like a start-up: rapid iteration and co-creation can transform how students experience university: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/reimagining-student-experience-using-tips-startup-culture #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Reimagining the student experience using tips from start-up culture
Start-up principles such as rapid iteration, co-creation and agile teamwork can be used to transform the student experience, enabling faster, more effective responses to evolving student needs
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December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Upper-year student mentors help freshmen settle in, manage stress, tackle the workload, and stay grounded throughout their medical journey: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/far-home-not-alone-peer-mentoring-ease-culture-shock-international-students #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Far from home, but not alone: peer mentoring to ease culture shock for international students
Upper-year student mentors can provide freshmen mentees with practical tools to settle into a new environment, manage their mental health, navigate the workload and stay grounded throughout their medical studies
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December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Science secretary Liz Kendall has rejected suggestions that her Whitehall department is overly focused on artificial intelligence and deep tech at the expense of supporting the broader UK research ecosystem. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports
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DSIT’s AI and technology obsession overplayed – Kendall
Tech reskilling and digital democracy plans no distraction from furthering government’s research ambitions, says science secretary
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December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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A regional campus of Australia’s most remote university is set to add “prison work camp” to a portfolio of activities that includes testing drones, breeding Brahman cattle, copyrighting bushfoods and researching virtual fencing
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Prison work camp planned for rural Australian campus
Charles Darwin University facility will train inmates in agricultural skills and environmental maintenance to give them the ‘best chance to avoid reoffending’
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December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Research culture starts in the classroom, where enquiry becomes a habit and curiosity drives learning. Kashan Pirzada offers guidance on small, everyday teaching practices to cultivate it: https://ow.ly/fqZj50XAOOT #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Research culture begins with curiosity in the classroom
Research culture starts in the classroom, where enquiry becomes a habit and curiosity drives learning. Kashan Pirzada offers guidance on small, everyday teaching practices to cultivate it
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December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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With the number of students experiencing mental health issues rising, #CBT is being applied as a one-size-fits-all solution. Here’s how to branch out into other approaches: https://ow.ly/gAkC50XAOLR #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Diversify university mental health services beyond CBT
With the number of students experiencing mental health issues rising, CBT is being applied as a one-size-fits-all solution. Here’s how to branch out into other approaches
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December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Latin America University Rankings 2026: results announced #THEunirankings
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/latin-america-university-rankings-2026-results-announced
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Higher education reviewer and steward Mary O’Kane has been named next chancellor of the University of Queensland, where she will succeed diplomat Peter Varghese
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/okane-named-next-queensland-chancellor
O’Kane named next Queensland chancellor
Serial reviewer and interim higher education steward to head governing body of sunshine state’s sandstone university
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December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Offering universities small amounts of money for “transformation” projects could help drive change in the cash-strapped university sector, says chair of Scottish Funding Council
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December 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Institutions in the UK have been urged to embed a place-based economic agenda at their core if they truly want to be seen as civic universities. Patrick Jack reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/civic-engagement-licence-practice-universities
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Opinion: Many students in Australia struggle to afford enough food, and expensive campus outlets are not helping, say Jane Dyson and four colleagues
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/subsidised-canteens-are-must-address-student-food-insecurity
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Brazil’s University of São Paulo has retained its position as the best institution in Latin America for the second year in a row in the THE Latin America University Rankings #THEunirankings
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2026/latin-america-university-rankings
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Scholar forced to apologise after speaking out on Hong Kong fire: academic says he will ‘exercise greater caution’ in future after media interview in which he criticised use of bamboo for scaffolding in major projects
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December 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The University of Manchester’s new vice-chancellor was paid almost £150,000 more in pay and benefits than his predecessor, a well-known advocate for restraint in senior leader pay
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Universities are not just centres of innovation, they are also platforms for promoting the commercialisation of research. As ‘research assistants’, Gen AI can open the door for ‘under the radar’ start-ups that human evaluators may miss: https://ow.ly/vpGb50XAOJY #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
GenAI as a research assistant: transforming start-up due diligence
Universities are not just centres of innovation, they are also platforms for promoting the commercialisation of research. As ‘research assistants’, Gen AI can open the door for ‘under the radar’ start-ups that human evaluators may miss
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December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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For meaningful research impact, stakeholder engagement has to be genuine and built over time. Follow these tips for better collaboration: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-engage-stakeholders-research-matters
How to engage with stakeholders for research that matters
For meaningful research impact, stakeholder engagement has to be genuine and built over time. Follow these tips for better collaboration
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December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The University of Essex has announced it is looking to cut staff and close one of its campuses as it looks to create a more “sustainable” future. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
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December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“There’s no getting away from the fact that it’s a really disappointing result and it leaves us weakened. It’s not a good place to be,” @dyfrigjones.bsky.social tells @julietterowsell.bsky.social as UCU strike ballot misses turnout threshold www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-str...
UCU strike ballot fails after 60 per cent of members don’t vote
UK’s biggest academic union unable to pursue national industrial action over pay and job cuts after it fails to meet minimum turnout threshold
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December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"It is not enough to have an environmental management plan – the campus community must change its behaviour," writes Germán Anzola: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/tackle-one-concrete-problem-advance-sdgs-campus-recycling #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Tackle one concrete problem to advance the SDGs: campus recycling
A focus on recycling offers universities a realistic, high-impact way to strengthen sustainability and make measurable progress toward the SDGs
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December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Nurture feedback literacy through collaborative evaluation. Frederik Dahl Madsen and Kay Douglas show how a new approach works in two contrasting courses: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/make-feedback-conversation-empower-student-voice #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Make feedback a conversation to empower the student voice
Nurture feedback literacy through collaborative evaluation. Frederik Dahl Madsen and Kay Douglas show how a new approach works in two contrasting courses
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December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Collaboration between UK universities and businesses is starting to “slip back” after decades of growth, a new report warns
University-business collaboration stalls with both ‘under strain’
Income generated drops by 2 per cent year-on-year despite rise in new interactions, finds NCUB report
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December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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New Zealand’s universities will need to demonstrate improvements in their completion rates, the earnings of their graduates and industry uptake of their research to mount compelling arguments for government funding, under arrangements outlined in a new education strategy
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‘Unapologetic’ focus on economic growth in new NZ strategy
Jobs and achievement the new mantra in a ‘refocus on what matters most’ in the tertiary system
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December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"The classroom became a rare space where learners’ humanity outweighed their crime or potential sentence." A partnership with a prison helped one educator see her university teaching in a different light: https://ow.ly/qKkA50XAzTI #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
What learning behind bars can teach us about the university classroom
A partnership with a prison helped one educator see her university teaching in a different light. Find out how
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December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM