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Universities need to ‘redefine cheating’ in age of AI
Widespread use of new tools has ‘blurred lines’ between academic support and misconduct, study finds
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Placement payment rules embrace working students on the breadline
Eligibility rule workaround ensures students living hand to mouth will not miss out, but ‘overly complex’ Australian scheme still branded ‘underwhelming’
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Will ResearchPlus avoid pitfalls that brought down 1994 Group?
Group attempts to capitalise on new era of university collaboration – and show collective worth to government – but will it end up as a ‘pale imitation’ of Russell Group?
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Israel’s strikes have sent shockwaves through Iran’s academic community
The assassination of nuclear scientists has deepened the sense that scholars have become targets of geopolitical violence, says Roohola Ramezani
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Aston and Arden latest to launch new London campuses
Universities expand in the capital in search of new ways of attracting students
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Incoming free speech rules ‘compatible with EDI’, says Ahmed
Regulator tells universities it will not discourage diversity initiatives but says they must be run in accordance with free speech duties
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‘Incompetent’ former Dundee v-c urged to return £150,000 pay-off
Iain Gillespie admits not knowing his former institution breached banking arrangements until reading about it in damning report
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‘Gruesome’ workloads ‘undermine academics’ health’
Excess work hours ‘consistently’ correlate with ‘moderate to severe’ anxiety and depression, Australian survey finds
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Relax ‘state control’ of teaching courses to ‘rebuild profession’
Labour urged to undo changes to university-based teacher education to hand back control to experts
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Research universities form new mission group to ‘grow visibility’
Ten institutions including some members of the now-defunct 1994 Group join together in attempt to find ‘collective voice’ away from the Russell Group
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Ottoline Leyser: ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’
As she ends her five years as chief executive of UKRI, the plant scientist warns that forcing all institutions and researchers to pursue a single definition of research excellence is impoverishing...
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Internationalisation must remain a cornerstone of HE – but fairer
Universities in the Global North must treat those in the Global South as equals, sharing resources, leadership, authorship and IP, says Manuel Barcia
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Lack of ‘policy stability’ fuelling Welsh funding crisis – v-cs
Past few years have felt like ‘tumbling around in a washing machine at times’, university leader tells MPs