Focus on student skills over knowledge, universities urged
Sector leaders call for rethink of teaching methods to prepare students for changing world of work
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Restrict overseas recruitment to elite universities, says report
Radical restructuring of higher education would see lower-tariff institutions focus only on vocational courses, under plans outlined by right-wing thinktank
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Digital surveillance of scholars ‘eroding academic freedom’
Tracking teaching, grades and research productivity with electronic systems is affecting staff independence and well-being, union-backed survey finds
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Ten years to prepare for demographic cliff edge, China warned
High-ranking party official suggests campuses outside the elite will have to downsize as university-age population contracts
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Australian loan changes to wipe A$3 billion of student debt
While indexation change was widely anticipated, backdating of the measure was not
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Hiccups plague Universities Accord ‘priority’ measures
With deadlines rushed and then missed, even the straightforward work of Australia’s major higher education review is looking anything but
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No degree and little hope for protesting students behind bars
Student leaders protesting their university’s failure to accredit their degrees find themselves in Papua New Guinea jail, after ‘opportunist’ torches vehicles
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Labour ‘snookered’ by Tory moves against graduate visa – Johnson
Former universities minister attacks ‘sheer incoherence and self-destructiveness’ of deterring international students from coming to UK
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Too hard, too fast? One in three campuses now making redundancies
Number of institutions making redundancies passes 50, reflecting scale of financial challenge facing sector, but even some senior leaders fear rush into irreversible changes will do long-term harm
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In Gaza protests, enemies of US higher education find new weapon
Just as universities enter election-year battle over their worth, cries of antisemitism – sincere or otherwise – play into their historic partisan vulnerabilities
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Security vetting plan for researchers of sensitive technologies
MI5 director general warns vice-chancellors that hostile states are targeting UK universities