Labour to ‘change the way students pay for time at university’
Shadow education secretary avoids mention of the word ‘fees’ in conference speech comments
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Wellcome Trust names John-Arne Røttingen as chief executive
Norwegian public health official to succeed Sir Jeremy Farrar at biomedical science funder
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Investing in AI not seen as top priority for campus IT leaders
Annual survey of chief technology officers at US institutions reveals concerns about implications of AI but little enthusiasm for spending big on its potential
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Laboratory note-taking burden ‘falls on female science students’
Women are given less time on equipment and more administrative duties than men in mixed gender laboratory groups, new research indicates
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Offer international students more on post-study work, UK told
While Britain has gained ground as top-choice destination, it is being pipped by a resurgent Australia
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What’s in a name? The new partisan battlefront in college sector
Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education
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PhD by publication ‘not an option’ at most UK universities
Review finds only one in three institutions publishes guidance on alternative doctorate format
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Funding council budgets fall despite hike in research spending
Core budgets of UK grant-awarding agencies eroded as new money goes elsewhere
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Higher job attrition rates ‘widen gender and ethnicity pay gaps’
While earnings gaps are well known, study suggests they are even wider than previously thought
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Science whistleblowers need better support – and I should know
Instead of focusing on the reliability of the data, I know first-hand that defamation suits become personal and career-threatening, says David Sanders
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Starmer: Tories against ‘working-class aspiration for university’
Labour leader hits back at Rishi Sunak’s claim that higher education expansion target was one of ‘great mistakes of last 30 years’
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Halt gender critical book launch, Edinburgh told by UCU branch
‘Astonishing demand’ to suspend book launch over claims that its essays ‘delegimitise trans people’ shows activists have been ‘emboldened’, say editors
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‘Treadmill’ casual academic image ‘a myth’, bosses claim
Only a small fraction of casual academics are lecturers, Australian employer association says, but union challenges data
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China’s tuition fee hikes ‘could foreshadow’ marketised HE system
Beijing is ‘actively seeking to deter many young people from pursuing a degree’ to stem graduate unemployment, researcher says
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Conservative attacks on universities ‘not a vote winner’
New polling shows strong support for degrees from parents, while Tory tactic may be of ‘near-zero interest’ to public