Chasing perfection is a fool’s errand for PhD students

Neuroscientist Claudia Schrauwen says doctoral students are too eager to apologise for the limitations of their research rather than celebrate what they have found

Pay rises in UK universities on hold as unions consider strikes

Employer body says it is unable to instruct institutions to increase staff pay until unions decide whether to enter dispute

UKRI urged to loosen funding rules for new research bodies

Funder told to change its eligibility criteria described as a ‘de facto ban on supporting new organisations’

Psychology graduates urged to support Colombian quake survivors

Popstar Shakira joins efforts to help repair damage at university damaged in the disaster

Nearly half of colleges haven’t submitted student outcomes data

Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

Canberra cancels foreign teaching and research deals

Decisions ‘above my pay grade’, says Nobel laureate, as authorities quash joint research into pain relief and drug-resistant tuberculosis

Reshaping universities to suit the untested AI economy is wrong

Rush to integrate artificial intelligence indiscriminately across the curriculum ignores the true purpose of higher education, say Jelena Belic and Kritika Maheshwari 

Round lecture hall and recording booths: inside new Bristol campus

New £500 million development built on site once compared to a war zone gears up for autumn launch

Universities’ research costs shortfall rises again

Recovery rate of research improves slightly in latest Trac figures, but remains well below historic highs

British Academy of Jewellery closes courses with immediate effect

Specialist provider shuts after losing grant support, with more than 200 students impacted

Australian visa fees ‘paying for domestic reforms’ – minister

University system already reliant on international students’ tuition fees now depends on visa fees as well

AI helped researchers win NIH grants. Will science suffer?

‘No easy way to deal with it’: Taiwan enrolments to slump again

Country projected to lose another quarter of first-year entrants in 16 years, with international students unlikely to fill the gaps