Times Higher Education: Mixed report card for academy’s civic impact

Female academics are twice as likely to carry out work with charitable and voluntary organisations as their male counterparts, a study reveals … The report, commissioned by Hefce from Public and Corporate Economic Consultants, is titled Knowledge Exchange and the Generation of Civic and Community Impacts. It says teaching-focused universities are more likely than their research-intensive counterparts to consider community development as a “top-three priority”.

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