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South Africa and UK launch joint research initiative
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Multidisciplinary research ‘career suicide’ for junior academics
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Quebec to set university leaders’ salaries
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Africa Summit 2016: do not 'rely on poor taxpayers' for HE funding
By Ellie Bothwell. African universities must “break away” from the “reliance on the poor taxpayer” for funding and instead broaden their income sources to “help preserve their independence and academic freedom”. More...
Africa Summit 2016: ‘overcome’ public-private 'divide'
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Africa Summit 2016: proper credit is 'boosting African research'
By Ellie Bothwell. Published research from African universities is on the rise because academics across the continent are getting better at insisting that they are not just treated as "data gatherers". More...