The week in higher education – 25 April 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Franchising: close ‘back door’ for student loan fraud, MPs urge
Committee urges new transparency data, strengthened oversight and guidance on how big a cut of tuition fee universities should take
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‘Weak’ funding blamed as Europe falls behind on innovation
European Innovation Council president says member states are struggling to turn good science into ‘game-changing innovations’
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Dutch universities to cut English-only undergraduate degrees
Universities Netherlands announces new measures to limit international student numbers, but needs politicians’ help to introduce quotas
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Why even a physicist like me should shudder at Goldsmiths’ predicament
The humanities- and social sciences-focused institution is the canary in UK higher education’s increasingly explosive coalmine, says Sir Keith Burnett
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DSA outsourcing ‘put targets before disabled applicants’
MPs hear concerns about quality of assessment process under new suppliers Capita and Study Tech
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Columbia ends in-person classes as protests spread across US
University’s president in tough situation, with lawmakers escalating tensions, students angered by quick use of police force, and encampments elsewhere drawing similar responses
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Canadian budget pledges major investment in research and students
After flat research funding drew complaints last year from universities, new plan warmly welcomed
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Australian student visa changes undermine campus diversity push
Latest changes encourage more recruitment from China for universities that already have the market cornered
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How men get away with dodging ‘academic housework’
Women expected to be ‘organisational team-players’ while male colleagues ‘allowed to pursue their individual career interests’
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Academic prosecuted for calling minister’s speech ‘neo-Hitlerite’
Italian philosopher faces defamation charges after condemning use of term ‘ethnic replacement’
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Graduate debt relief expected in Australian budget
Student loans among the ‘areas where we need to do much better with the younger generation’, prime minister concedes
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Columbia students fight back against protest crackdown
After more than 100 arrests at demonstration supporting Palestinians, students revive mass occupation, putting their president under new fire from briefly supportive Republicans
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Ashoka University to conduct campus survey after caste protests
Private institution to assess socio-economic make-up of its staff and students as calls grow for a national census
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‘Local’ students just one in 10 at some elite universities
Durham again found to have lowest proportion of students from its own region, but highlights work to boost north east's low HE participation rate