The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms Oxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to give the majority of its tutorials, after new research revealed just a third of lessons are taught by full-time professors. Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the University and College Union and shared exclusively with the Observer , reveals that about 61% of core tutori

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on November 16, 2024 Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall. In addition to MIT’s two U.S. Rhodes winners, Oluigbo and Nair, two affiliates were awarded international Rhodes Scholarships: Chen for Rhodes’ China constituency and Hector for the Global Rhodes Scholarshi

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