Student governors sidelined despite expanding role, report warns
Efforts to ensure student voices are heard on university boards often ‘tokenistic’, with ‘invisible barriers’ placed on participation
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Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of...
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The UK’s copyright laws will hobble its AI ambitions
Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White
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Universities ‘overthinking’ competition laws, says OfS chair
Edward Peck insinuates risks of breaching rules when collaborating across sector aren’t as high as widely perceived
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More than half of disadvantaged students living at family home
Admissions chief fears rising number of commuter students could limit access to courses for those from poorest backgrounds
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MPs query Smith’s claims that insolvent providers can teach out
Minister’s assertion that universities can keep trading during liquidation process ‘markedly’ at odds with other experts’ views, committee chair says
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Smith to leave Southampton v-c role for new post at Oxford
Nuclear physicist departs next spring having set up first branch campus in India
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REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit
Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit
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The REF’s environment rebrand is no climbdown
The pragmatic response to misunderstandings around the word ‘culture’ will ensure that grassroots momentum is not lost, says John-Arne Røttingen
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Canada announces details of C$1.7 billion talent scheme
Federal government says it is ‘doubling down on science’ with one of the largest recruitment programmes of its kind in the world
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‘Pre-order’ research in sights of science academy president-elect
Epilepsy pioneer vows to target ‘negative view’ of discovery science and ‘mindset’ of expecting the outcomes in advance
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International student levy ‘could topple mid-tier universities’
Institutions that charge moderate fees and can’t pass costs on to students likely to be greatest victims of new tax, while some believe policy will help weed out lower-quality players
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Talent race ‘wide open’, say US researchers heading to UK
Two of the first beneficiaries of £54 million Global Talent Fund discuss how US funding uncertainties – as well as desire for home comforts – influenced their decision to move
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US universities must do all they can to counter voter suppression
Reject calls for passive ‘neutrality’ and develop integrated plans to promote student voting, say Jonathan Becker, Erin Cannan and Yael Bromberg
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Policy impact undervalued by universities, say social scientists
Lack of career rewards for impact and institutional focus on publication metrics highlighted in Sage survey