The REF’s postponement raises hopes that sanity will prevail on PCE
The three-month pause to re-examine the assessment of ‘people, culture and environment’ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan
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Review retirement age rules for Teachers’ Pension Scheme – unions
Falling life expectancy calls for a rethink of when university staff qualify for benefits, letter to Treasury says
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Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
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Kyle promoted to business secretary as skills ‘moved out of DfE’
Keir Starmer reshuffles Cabinet after Angela Rayner resignation, with big implications for higher education
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UK universities failing on research culture could lose funding
Research England to use REF pause to consider whether institutions must meet baseline performance measures as a condition of receiving funds
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UCU threatens to dock staff pay in row over working from home
Union’s new policy mandating three office days a week resisted by some staff, who are refusing to come in at all
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Nick Gibb: education faculties ‘absent from schools revolution’
Longest-serving education minister explains why he ignored ‘abstract’ and ‘ideological’ academic research in fight to improve school performance
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NZ university review ‘moved the dial’, says chair Gluckman
Exercise ‘triggered a lot of work that’s still got to be completed’ but succeeded in being ‘provocative’, according to country’s former chief science adviser
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‘Irreconcilable’ pressures as watchdog derails UTS restructure
Vice-chancellor feels ‘pulled in different directions’ as health concerns force pause in job cuts plans he says are needed to break even
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Researchers linked to fake network awarded millions in funding
Digital Science said its investigation showed how weaknesses in research and publishing systems can be systematically exploited
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‘Keep focus on excellence and impact,’ say v-cs after REF pause
Using REF to tackle research culture risks making it too ‘bureaucratic and burdensome’, university leaders warn as Vallance rethinks changes to weightings
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The Israel-Hamas war is killing academic freedom
The suppressive precedents being set in the US, Germany and Israel can and will be applied to other issues, too, say Katharina Galor and Noga Wolff
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Don’t ‘circumvent’ immigration rules, UK universities warned
Intervention by sector leader comes amid concern about growth in master’s by research degrees following dependants ban for other courses
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OfS recruits for ‘provider board’ as Peck signals new approach
Regulator wants vice-chancellors to advise on policy as part of new chair’s attempts to build better relationship with sector
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UKRI chief: ‘Do fewer things in research but do them really well’
Ian Chapman backs ministers’ calls for more research specialisation by universities in first public comments since taking over at £9 billion-a-year research funder