India’s new caste bias regulations have resulted in turmoil
The Supreme Court’s suspension of the regulations highlights contention about when equity efforts tip into reverse discrimination, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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Scottish ministers pressing Westminster on student visa delays
‘Frustrating’ changes to immigration rules affecting Scotland’s ability to be internationally competitive, says higher education minister
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OfS denies Sussex fine was ‘absolutist’ approach to free speech
Court documents show Kathleen Stock feared ‘chilling effect’ of university trans policy as she was ‘never assured’ she would not face disciplinary action as a result of contravening it
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College staff ‘directed students towards essay mills and AI’
OfS investigation finds students at provider delivering franchised degrees also told how to avoid detection by plagiarism software
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Australian opposition condemns ‘turgid and bureaucratic’ Atec
Government faces horse-trading in the Senate, as shadow minister flags outright rejection of bill to establish commission
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Nicola Sturgeon: devolved tax system harming universities
Former first minister advocates for progressive taxes as way of funding higher education as debates ramp up over who should pay for university
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Demand from Chinese students declines Down Under
Drop in visa applications reflects the social and economic factors affecting the behaviour of the world’s most globally mobile students, analysts say
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TEF should ‘penalise universities for failing on racial equity’
Report flags how seven institutions that have achieved a coveted gold rating have black awarding gaps exceeding 25 percentage points
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‘Worrying’ number of unverified English tests accepted in UK
‘Flexibility’ on testing in UK system ‘may worry government’ after review finds large variety of methods used to examine language skills
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Will Argentina’s chainsaw massacre of science spark a chain reaction?
Argentina’s emboldened president Javier Milei declared in Davos that ‘the rebirth of the ideas of liberty’ in the Americas was spreading globally. With Chilean voters taking a similarly hard-right...
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A university judged on graduate salaries is a dog wagged by its tail
We must better explain to school-leavers the intellectual, technical, creative and social benefits of higher education, says Brooke Storer-Church
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New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’
Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study
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UWL fined £150,000 by Ofqual over ‘serious rule breaches’
Regulator finds university failed to ‘exercise proper control’ of one of its external assessment centres
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Kent and Greenwich hail ‘key milestone’ as merger terms inked
Greenwich to change name to London and South East University Group before Kent joins as new ‘superuniversity’ takes shape