Scientists who laid machine learning groundwork win physics Nobel
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield share prize for ‘foundational discoveries and inventions’
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Guidelines on AI use in research needed to avert ‘race to bottom’
Newcastle vice-chancellor says shared approach needed to prevent ‘bad practices’
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Chegg accused of breaching Australia’s anti-cheating law
US-based education support site taken to court by regulator, in first test of nascent legislation
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How Johns Hopkins built a team of star grant winners
‘SWAT team’ of finance experts and science writers helps university secure more federal research funds than any other US institution, says its vice-provost for research
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Scrap REF and allocate funds based on external grants – thinktank
Abandoning ‘bureaucratic’ exercise now would save universities £430 million, according to UK Day One
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University attacks in democracies ‘embolden illiberal regimes’
Increasing trend for policies that attempt to undermine or overhaul higher education in US and Europe being exported worldwide, Scholars at Risk warns
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University keeps details of record v-c payout under wraps
Releasing details of Paddy Nixon’s final-year earnings of $A1.8 million would be ‘contrary to the public interest’, Canberra insists
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Switzerland ‘losing attractiveness’ as government limits spending
Funders and prestigious universities ‘cannot compete’ as budgets stand still or go backwards
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Call for more focused research ‘risks fostering academic elitism’
Experts fear ‘high-risk strategy’ as universities urged to double down on existing strengths and retrench from other areas
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What price inclusion when academic conferences remain child-free zones?
When my babysitter fell through, why couldn’t an exception be made so I could attend the fancy £90 dinner, asks Eve Hayes De Kalaf
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Brian Cox: humanities research is ‘absolutely vital’
BBC presenter and physicist says ‘no one is clever enough’ to know which subjects to switch off
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UK ‘going backwards’ on university access, warns Justine Greening
Former education secretary tells World Academic Summit that UK has ‘deprioritised’ equitable access
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Western universities ‘learn more’ from Global South collaboration
Manchester vice-chancellor says institutions must continue to work across borders in the face of political scepticism
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Labour commits to £7 million fund to tackle campus antisemitism
Funding aims to ‘educate people about antisemitism’ and ‘better equip’ universities to tackle antisemitic abuse
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Minister eyes English funding reforms ‘sooner rather than later’
Baroness Smith references October budget as she says government is ‘working on a whole range of options’