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Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Appointed Provost of Johns Hopkins University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ray Jayawardhana Jayawardhana is currently dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He previously served as dean of science and professor of physics and astronomy at York University in Canada and senior adviser to the president for science engagement at the University of Toronto. "Dr.

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Wednesday briefing: Why Britain needs more black science professors

The Guardian - Higher Education

In today’s newsletter: Black professors make up less than 1% of science academics – will a new Royal Society scheme address the imbalance? Environment | Rishi Sunak is planning to row back on some of the government’s net zero policies as the Conservatives attempt to create a dividing line with Labour before the next election.

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Berkeley and Sweden’s KTH sign tech deal

The PIE News

University of California, Berkeley and Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology will expand educational and research exchanges in technology under a new agreement. The five-year agreement focuses on computer science, biotechnology, chemistry, mechanical engineering and basic scientific exploration partnership.

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High-achieving Indian alumni honoured in UK

The PIE News

He received the Best Project Award at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022 for Meghalaya Enterprise Architect, showcasing his commitment to technological advancements. Telangana has become a prime investment hub for sectors such as IT, life sciences, aerospace, textiles and food processing.

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UK “halfway step” to Horizon Europe association

The PIE News

And I like Greenland, but this wasn’t good for our science. What we see here are the first steps in getting back into that European science fold. It’s really, really important for the entire UK science endeavour.” “The only thing standing in the way of association was the Northern Ireland protocol.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

EU Membership and UK Science (Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords, 20 April 2016). Note that this report was partially derived out of written and oral evidence provided to the Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords (December 2015-March 2016), some of which is flagged below. Wonk HE, 26 June 2016).

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Excellent outputs demand excellent people, cultures and environments

HEPI

Worse still, in Thrift’s telling, UKRI and the HE funders in charge of the REF have suffered ‘an attack of the vapours’; they now prefer to stoke the warmth of collegiality through a greater focus on People, Culture and Environment (‘whatever that means’, says Thrift) and to cast aside any considerations of individual merit.