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European universities adjust schedules because of energy costs

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Image: Growing numbers of universities across continental Europe are making plans to extend their Christmas holidays or to move teaching online in a bid to save on soaring energy bills. ” Global Editorial Tags: International higher education Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Ukraine faces an academic crisis (opinion)

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Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country; according to the United Nations, more than six million Ukrainians are recorded as refugees across Europe. Mark Temnycky is an accredited freelance journalist covering Eastern Europe and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center. He can be found on Twitter @MTemnycky.

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Leading scientists worldwide are victims of fake articles

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Global Editorial Tags: Faculty Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?: Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Higher ed can combat Ukrainian brain drain (opinion)

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A United Nations Refugee Agency survey shows that the majority of the millions of Ukrainian refugees in Europe hope to return home as soon as possible. We witness several other initiatives of this kind in North America and Europe (e.g., at the University of Toronto ). He is the senior vice rector at Ukrainian Catholic University.

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Texas consortium of 44 colleges strikes deal with Elsevier

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“What’s happening in the States is the tail end of what’s already swept through Europe,” said Mark McBride, associate director for libraries and scholarly communications at Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit focused on improving access to knowledge and education. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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It's (past) time to rethink the credit hour (opinion)

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And in Europe, the European Consortium of Innovative Universities recently declared that microcredentials are a “powerful vehicle to fundamentally transform the nature of university-based learning and the role of higher education in helping to address important skill gaps and wider societal challenges. Disable left side advertisement?:

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

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In addition to teaching, some of the Ukrainian graduate students at KU are also helping revamp the curriculum for the university’s Introduction to Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia course so it de-emphasizes Russian history and better represents the surrounding region. “That’s pretty much it.”