Amid financial turmoil, post-92s are creating subsidiaries to employ staff without having to enrol them in the expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme. But what does that mean for grant and REF...
Editors’ failures to stick to advertised time frames and formatting requirements cost authors extra effort and stress, says Rob Sowby
Scouring funded grant applications for ‘woke’ terminology is ‘chilling’, say top US researchers alarmed by defunding threats
Humanities courses are often forced to ‘justify their relevance’ in ways STEM subjects are not, TV historian says
Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ‘abusive practices’ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud
Expenses spike despite dwindling student numbers, with signs the gap could widen
Chinese students are crucial to Thailand’s international education ambitions, but quality concerns pose a risk
Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds
Academics warn of ‘culture of fear’ at pre-eminent Welsh institution amid plans to axe courses and hundreds of jobs
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
More than half of PhD graduates find jobs outside universities after graduating but students complain programmes are still only set up to help create new professors
Data centre mogul Robin Khuda seeks ‘cohort effect’ with largest-ever gift to Australia’s oldest university
The newly relaunched ranking aims to provide the definitive list of the world’s most prestigious universities according to academics around the globe
Legal and regulatory issues push some English institutions into taking financial hit of not increasing fees
Social sciences ‘the proverbial canary in the coalmine’ for restrictions in other areas of research, dean warns