News

Vice-chancellors acted like fawning retail attendants in Pretty Woman, former prime minister says

Proportion of school-leavers achieving top grades expected to soar

Rise could prompt concerns about sustainability of current postgraduate loans system

Sydney and UNSW vow to collaborate more, while shrugging off snarky stereotypes

At partisan moment, governing regents pursue new processes allowing for firing of tenured faculty

Major delays in embassy processing times suggest State Department is not prioritising issue, lawmakers say

Octopus breaks down traditional scientific outputs into smaller chunks which can then be linked to form ‘chains’ of broader work

Pal Ahluwalia to run multi-country university from Samoa, as audit clears management of breaches

University-run hospital will be part of a larger push to legitimise local expertise

Asia operations are either being expanded or newly opened as the countries' universities aim to keep students engaged and enrolled

Many might be digital natives, but students warm to academics’ warts-and-all e-learning efforts

Whitlam and HECS fostered a ‘social psychology’ of indifference towards higher education, Australasian conference hears

Thousands of university students are now living under strict quarantine rules to meet local regulations

Publishers criticise continued embrace of ‘green’ model alongside ‘gold’, but funder insists it has struck the right balance

Government adjusts cap on medicine places to deal with demand

Tens of thousands of students from subcontinent set to arrive in Britain this autumn

Responsible border control has, ironically, left Australia and New Zealand trailing their competitors

Continuing students slow to return despite government green light, while visa applications from first-timers are binned

Unanimous decision for York University lets lecturers keep sharing portions of published works with students

Education minister cites buoyant student experience ratings as evidence of the country’s ‘fundamentals’

Tributes paid to leading medical expert on obesity who was friend to, and former leader of, the University of London

Ex-Labour adviser claims Westminster government wants to hear students’ views only when they agree with policy agenda

As THE survey reveals teaching plans for autumn term, MP warns negative perceptions of digital tuition could figure in fees debate

Standardised appointment requirements and training under consideration in sector-wide drive to tackle grade inflation

Move puts issue on a par with other credit-bearing modules such as English and Marxist theory

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Former Hong Kong v-c and expert on the overseas Chinese experience talks about living through nearly a century of Asian history

US president follows higher education associations in condemning Republican bans on public health measures such as vaccination and face coverings

Agreement to waive author fees similar to one with Jisc, which together serve as model for future expansion

Difference in scores given to white and non-white students largely disappeared in coursework, UCL study finds

Outflow of cash prompts calls for change in nation with world’s second-biggest English-speaking population

Ending automatic inflationary increases in benefits should keep contributions below 30 per cent of salary, says joint statement

Australia, Canada and US confirmed as potential exchange destinations, alongside key European sectors

Course cut critics castigate Australian institution for using data selectively, as sociologists elsewhere watch on nervously

Union members overwhelmingly back action even as number of compulsory redundancies slashed to two

Amid silence from universities and protests from Democrats, Biden prosecutors seek new trial for Anming Hu

Takeover will preserve ‘rich heritage’ of trade union college, say leaders

With ‘storytelling’ CVs becoming crucial in hiring and funding decisions, Jack Grove explores how academics can craft compelling research statements

Westminster reforms would force leading providers out of sector, representative body warns

Investment in education services provider IDP set to pay multimillion-dollar dividends as students use its language tests to head to Canada and UK

Wrangling between DfE and Treasury over direction of policy appears to be main roadblock

University insists historian Garrett Felber was let go for failing to communicate effectively with department chair

Representative groups put preparatory work in place as latest infections undermine plans to reboot arrivals

Policy revamp aims to tackle gender inequality

Comparison websites on the way as admissions centres reinvent their services amid emerging needs and demographic change

New MillionPlus chief executive says blinkered focus on graduate employment data could make life ‘very difficult’ for modern institutions

Ministers to encourage, not compel, inoculation ahead of return to halls and lectures

Smaller campuses and providers in London bear brunt of latest reforms

Redrawn hukou rules indicate changing attitudes towards talent but could reinforce urban-rural divide, experts say

While humanity’s coexistence with nature is not always harmonious, Cosmos Prize winner says it can be hard to pick the aggressor

Kristian Helin, incoming head of the Institute of Cancer Research, reflects on lessons learned from pandemic

State media defend China’s call to remove two speakers from summit

Departing Australian human rights commissioner expects v-cs to be among the students of his new AI ethics initiative

English sector leaders fear cuts to London weighting and arts funding could be compounded by fee cut

Former DfE adviser insists proposal is not a return to the days of polytechnics

Sutton Trust survey of school-leavers reveals widespread anxiety about impact of Covid-19 pandemic on university admissions

Overall funding decisions more than double to almost 40,000 thanks to Covid-related grants

Discussion document seeks feedback on vision of international education Utopia

Those who can afford it get top degrees both at home and abroad, report shows

International learners increasingly confident about starting their course as planned, according to survey