News Talks podcast: Could GenAI derail HE’s net-zero efforts?

We discuss the environmental implications of mass GenAI adoption across higher education and why universities are failing to account for its use in their quest to reduce carbon emissions

Funding bill revised to stop Canberra defunding courses

Government amendments as bill passes first stage ‘fix minor drafting errors identified by my department’, minister explains

Cybersecurity threat delays start of classes at UT San Antonio

Will higher education prove to be the BJP’s Achilles heel?

Narendra Modi’s centralisation of power means that his government takes all of the blame when things go wrong. The success of the cockroach movement reflects how the Indian youth’s hopes for a better...

New tools help detect fraudulent images in scientific papers

Detectors can help pinpoint where image manipulation is occurring but should not be seen as a ‘universal truth machine’, experts say

Students left in the dark as psychotherapy academy goes bust

Chichester steps in to teach out programmes after sudden closure of APAC

Chasing perfection is a fool’s errand for PhD students

Neuroscientist Claudia Schrauwen says doctoral students are too eager to apologise for the limitations of their research rather than celebrate what they have found

Pay rises in UK universities on hold as unions consider strikes

Employer body says it is unable to instruct institutions to increase staff pay until unions decide whether to enter dispute

UKRI urged to loosen funding rules for new research bodies

Funder told to change its eligibility criteria described as a ‘de facto ban on supporting new organisations’

Psychology graduates urged to support Colombian quake survivors

Popstar Shakira joins efforts to help repair damage at university damaged in the disaster

Nearly half of colleges haven’t submitted student outcomes data

Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

Canberra cancels foreign teaching and research deals

Decisions ‘above my pay grade’, says Nobel laureate, as authorities quash joint research into pain relief and drug-resistant tuberculosis

Reshaping universities to suit the untested AI economy is wrong

Rush to integrate artificial intelligence indiscriminately across the curriculum ignores the true purpose of higher education, say Jelena Belic and Kritika Maheshwari