AI threatens universities’ ability to bolster democracy

To protect critical, context-rich thinking in HE, knowledge agency must be quickly reclaimed from Big Edtech, say Dirk Lindebaum and Gazi Islam 

‘Academic cancel culture hurting scientific credibility’ – Pinker

Universities must show they are ‘capable of change’ to fend off Trump pressure, says Harvard professor

Australian review ‘fails to tackle basic research funding crisis’

‘Transformative’ change will not happen unless panel outlines ‘coherent’ vision for R&D, representative bodies warn

Nearly half of UK public say university participation is too high

YouGov survey finds big differences in support for universities across different political parties

Southern Queensland taps Canadian leader as next vice-chancellor

Homecoming of sorts for criminologist Paul Mazerolle, who faces challenge of returning institution to surplus

Australian focus on local skill needs ‘a disservice to neighbours’

The needs of students and their homelands – not their hosts – should govern international education offerings, policymakers told

Campuses split on whether syllabuses are public documents

Foreign graduates’ career outcomes ‘better than credited’

Alignment between study and work improving, particularly in health and education

Buckingham eyes investment after financial and leadership woes

Buyers likely to require drastic changes to move ahead with sale, experts say, as institution seeks to move on from torrid year

Accelerated graduate study in Japan raises quality concerns

Fast-track integrated programmes intended to address skills needs and boost postgraduate enrolments should not compromise research and curriculum design, say experts

Students caught spying should face ‘severe sanctions’, says Ahmed

Threat to academic freedom from secret recordings of seminars being passed to state governments must be taken seriously, says Office for Students free speech lead

Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI

Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak

University of West London to open Sri Lanka branch campus

Institution latest to increase transnational presence by expanding long-running partnership with local provider

‘Big four becomes big 14’ in dominating international education

Anglophone destinations no longer rule the roost, but experts say composition and quality should matter more than volume

Colleges push back against drive to collect more admissions data