Banks get tougher as UK universities’ debt issues mount
Need to meet commitments on loans taken out in boom years forces institutions to accept worse terms and conditions, or look to non-traditional sources for new funding
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The week in higher education – 19 December 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Unscientific social science is trading under false pretences
Social scientists must work hard to verify their conclusions. Too many that do not are rewarded anyway, says Martyn Hammersley
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MPs urge ESRC to rethink defunding King’s Brexit thinktank
Parliamentarians warn removal of funding for UK in a Changing Europe might be seen as ‘deprioritisation of impact-based work’, given its success
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Bedfordshire faces monitoring after OfS registration breach
University required to report to English watchdog as it addresses quality concerns relating to business and management courses
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Australian student caps resurrected in ministerial workaround
New directive prevents officials from issuing more than 270,000 student visas next year, and applies indicative caps on institutions previously proposed through legislation
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LSBU to OU: Dave Phoenix named Open University vice-chancellor
Biochemist heads to Milton Keynes after decade leading London South Bank University
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UK university financial crisis ‘failing to register with public’
Polling indicates lack of awareness over sector’s funding turmoil, with public seeing more international enrolments as solution to difficulties
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Hungarian universities stay blocked from EU grants despite appeal
Hungary ‘has not sufficiently addressed’ conflict of interest concerns, EU body rules
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Australia earmarks A$2.5 billion to expand universities
Reforms will redraw funding system and create tertiary education commission, but questions remain over how much cash will materialise
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Japan seeks to improve salary prospects for PhD graduates
Employers’ attitudes and pay discrepancies seen as hampering drive to increase doctoral level enrolments
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Italy mandates live delivery and staff ratios for online degrees
New decree, also requiring exams to be held in person, divides opinion among distance-learning universities
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Free speech act ‘toothless’ without right to sue, say campaigners
Academics sign open letter to education minister amid reports she is set to ‘water down’ campus free speech legislation
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AI is here to stay, so we may as well learn to use it? That’s a cop-out
We can’t just concede that usage is ethical if within universities’ narrowly conceived rules. What about the pursuit of truth, asks Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin
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Australian margins on international students ‘all but erased’
Universities must rethink their use of agents and discounts and put more effort into securing and retaining enrolments, consultant says