Migration Advisory Committee review: UK sector responds
Widespread disappointment at panel’s conclusions about policy on overseas students
Search
-
-
Many graduates leaving university under-skilled, says OECD
UK should focus more on improving ‘skills value’ of degrees rather than subsidising loans, suggests director of education and skills
-
UK universities among those spending smallest share on staff
Data in OECD’s Education at a Glance shows large variation in proportion of current expenditure being spent on teachers and support staff
-
UK overseas student review rejects key changes sought by sector
MAC report fails to back calls for reform on inclusion of students in migrant count and post-study work, but questions overall migrant target
-
Unfinished business on student debt as US legislators go to polls
Congress remains too divided to tackle crisis
-
UCU: slow justice for suspended professor is ‘union persecution’
Colleagues say Royal Holloway’s Jeff Frank has been left in limbo for months during investigation into ‘flimsy’ misconduct charges
-
Cyber agency puts German universities’ pacifism dilemma in focus
Since 2011, dozens of institutions have sworn not to undertake military-related research, but the country is now calling on academics to strengthen its defences
-
Short-term contracts harm the ‘common good’ mission of universities
How can contract academics inspire action and hope in their students when they feel hopeless, asks Sarika Bose
-
Southampton v-c Sir Christopher Snowden to retire
Ex-Universities UK president became one of highest-paid leaders in sector
-
Student mental health research in UK gets £1 million boost
New network will help to develop England’s University Mental Health Charter
-
French university suspends homeopathy degree
Lille’s medical dean says subject will no longer be taught because it lacks ‘absolute scientific proof’
-
Leading agri-food universities back UN ‘zero hunger’ drive
Five institutions from around globe sign up for greater student exchange and research collaboration
-
Argentinian academics protest against education budget cuts
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Buenos Aires as confidence in nation’s economy dwindles at the cost of higher education
-
Richard Arum: don’t blame me for the rise of ‘edusceptics’
Author of Academically Adrift says university haters have ‘grossly distorted’ his seminal study
-
New US rules on campus sexual misconduct ‘a backwards step’
Government accused of making universities ‘a safer place to commit assault’, but others say changes will offer better support for victims