With the USS on the up, we need to try to flatten the roller coaster
The pension scheme’s healthy reported surplus could allow us to put benefits and contribution rates on a more stable long-term footing, says Carol Young
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Extend childcare grants to postgraduates, urge universities
Students doing master’s and PhDs in the UK are ineligible for childcare grants, which are in place only for full-time undergraduates
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Supervisor suspended after students allege academic misconduct
Huang Feiruo placed on leave by Huazhong Agricultural University after whistleblowing report circulates widely
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Elite US universities face investigations over legacy admissions
Biden administration examining if favouring alumni families is a civil rights violation
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Russell Group universities contemplate overseas student ‘shocks’
Research-intensives warn they are ever more reliant on Chinese and Indian students, as York’s sharp fall sounds alarm on global market shifts
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Australia’s per-student international earnings eroded by Covid
Cash-strapped institutions face task of rebuilding per-student returns as well as student numbers, with earnings slashed by scholarships, offshoring and other factors
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Red tape declining but so is funding, says outgoing science chief
Unlike the institutions they work for, Australian researchers have less paperwork – but investment remains in the doldrums
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‘Endemic’ casualisation ‘a choice, not a necessity’, says UCU
Union ranks institutions on efforts to better support precarious workforce, and finds most failing to get to grips with the issue
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Used as a learning co-pilot, ChatGPT puts students on the road to success
With careful prompting, the AI can offer personalised tutoring that helps students understand where they need to go, says Dan Sarofian-Butin
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Publishers resist changes to textbook access scheme
Policy that has allowed universities to automatically charge students for course materials comes under threat from Biden administration
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Canadian universities blast international student visa cap
Requirement for new applications to be accompanied by letters of attestation means limits are effective immediately, universities say
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Most overseas graduates switching visas are working in care
Oxford researchers say more international students are staying in UK beyond two-year period allowed by post-study work visa, but many of them are not going into graduate-level jobs
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Nottingham introduces ‘reduced offers’ for international students
Russell Group university follows York in dropping entry bar, but sector is warned of hit to reputation
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Teaching caps at risk as Brighton redraws academics’ contracts
Time reserved for research ‘being eroded’, says UCU, as university insists it is seeking to create ‘more flexible workforce’
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Offer pregnant applicants more flexibility, research funders told
Pregnant researchers and new parents describe how they were hindered by inflexible interview process