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Let’s not confuse institutional prestige with national priority
We should fund higher education based on the needs of the country, not league table placings, say David Mba and Julie Farrell
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The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried
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The real collaboration question isn’t what, but why – and how?
On 3 November Wonkhe will host The Collaboration Question in London. Debbie McVitty assesses where the conversation has got to and where it needs to go from here
The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t
Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration
Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?
OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts
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