SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Funding for them may be uncertain.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. The Office for Students now grants degree-awarding powers to new providers of higher education but so far these have almost all been confined to powers to award ‘taught degrees’.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

That expectation was wrong in 2002, and it’s even worse now, as this grim report shows. Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor.

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