New OfS provider panel to be ‘critical friend’ to regulator
Senior leaders selected to help guide higher education watchdog as it attempts to work more collaboratively with sector
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Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
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Public speaking: the unspoken route to academic impact
Speakers’ bureaux are largely designed to promote celebrity after-dinner entertainers, but they are also being adopted by some academic publishers as a way to boost their authors’ long-term profiles...
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Better education can help science deliver for democracy amid populism
Across schools and universities, students must be taught how the scientific method reveals workable policy options – not diktats, says Peter Calow
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Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
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Improve working conditions to get SFC funding, universities told
Scottish institutions made to address workplace inequalities and zero-hours contracts as condition of receiving grants
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Union brands London Met cuts an ‘act of institutional vandalism’
University’s plan to cut more than 100 academic roles puts its reputation for inclusive education at risk, fears UCU
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Bursaries only for full-time students ‘discriminatory’
Inclusion worker challenges institutions whose scholarship programmes are not open to all after missing out on place on master’s
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China aims for ‘quality’ overseas students with admissions exam
Experts say introduction of compulsory test for all undergraduate courses shows country’s shifting approach to internationalisation
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Vice-chancellors under pressure from OfS to cut China ties
Leaders face grilling from free speech director amid concerns about Chinese government-backed scholarships
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Academics turn to TikTok in search of new ways of engaging public
Scholars with large followings on app say it is a good way to change misconceptions about what they do
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Humanities cuts leave us defenceless in the age of AI
It is vital to examine what chatbots’ behaviour reveals about their underlying structures – and human responses to them, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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Scottish budget promises £55 million extra for universities
SNP announces ‘real terms’ funding uplift pre-election but universities say extra money not enough to combat financial challenges
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