Students back employer levy to fund English higher education
Hepi report on funding options, aimed at stopping politicians from ‘keeping shtum’, sees v-c back a graduate tax as ‘genuinely progressive’
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Interview with Kenneth Womack
Professor reflects on Liverpool’s ‘literary greats’ and how a lost archive led to his ‘warts and all’ profile of the Fab Four and their road manager
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Evaristo fears Goldsmiths cuts imperil black literature master’s
Booker Prize-winning author is latest arts leader to speak out against job shedding at celebrated university
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Hong Kong housing failing to keep up with overseas student growth
While enrolment rates are set to surge at the island’s universities, progress on the development of student housing has been slow
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Virtual reality-boosted treatments ‘reduce student exam stress’
Preliminary results showed students who used VR headsets reported greater improvements in how calm they felt compared with those who accessed interventions via smartphones
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Compensation call after students with ‘non-Dutch’ names targeted
Education minister apologises after investigation finds students from migrant backgrounds were disproportionately selected for home visits
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Ukraine plans inspections over huge spike in draft-age enrolments
Applications climbed by almost 2,000 per cent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion, but most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements
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Can AI-powered college counsellors ‘democratise’ admissions?
Proponents of new technology say it can alleviate stress on advisers and make expertise more accessible but critics say this work needs a human touch
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English universities report fewer overseas master’s enrolments
Early data suggest number of international students starting taught postgraduate courses is down 6 per cent, but some individual campuses hit much harder
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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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New Zealand cancels research quality evaluation
New government’s decision spells the end of ‘back-breaking’ exercise, commentators say
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Biden rolls out major new student debt forgiveness plan
After 2020 campaign promise, and Supreme Court rejection, president still sees winning hand in college debt relief
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Beware the public backlash from ‘science triumphalism’
A radical new manifesto for science communication is warning about the dangers of making arrogant claims that academic knowledge can explain the mysteries of the universe. Matthew Reisz meets its...
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Labour tipped to ‘lean on’ research budget to boost growth
Shadow chancellor’s regional productivity agenda could be driven by devolving parts of R&D funding or creating new kinds of institutions, say experts
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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