World University Rankings 2027: results announced
Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now
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World University Rankings 2027: Australia steady as West slides
Australia defies prophecies of doom and a trend of Western decline but observers warn that it can only defy gravity for so long
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World University Rankings 2027: gathering momentum
The 2027 edition of the rankings still has an exclusively US and UK top 10 but Asia is rising again, as universities across the world face funding and AI challenges
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World University Rankings 2027: can China break into the top 10?
Chinese universities go from strength to strength, but will need to bolster their international outlook if they are to reach the top – and the policy signals are mixed on this front
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Metric modifications will help maintain rankings quality
Revisions to the World University Rankings methodology metrics for the 2028 edition will include a cap on self-citations and an adjustment in the research quality metrics, to keep the rankings robust...
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Rankings portfolio expands to support regional development
New World University Rankings derivatives for South-east Asia and Central Eurasia will support universities on their development trajectory
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Assessment has been redesigned for the AI era. Why hasn’t marking?
We should mark a student’s distance travelled, rather than judging them solely on the absolute quality of a final output, says Emma Ransome
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Tiered English tuition fee system ‘would denude rest of sector’
Fallout over differential university fees suggestion continues, amid suggestions that the Russell Group head is saying the quiet part out loud
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UKRI’s plans to cut QR funding risk ‘weakening regional capacity’
Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity
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Female researchers ask for less funding than male counterparts
Study analysing grant application data from Danish funders suggests that requesting more funding could boost female academics’ careers
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Bologna rector: ‘No tension between tradition and innovation’
The success of the West’s oldest university is down to its ability to adapt to the challenges of each era and a strong relationship with its city, Giovanni Molari tells Seher Asaf
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South Africa looks at alternatives for ‘unsustainable’ aid scheme
Higher education minister says greater use of student loans could form part of the solution for the trouble-hit National Student Financial Aid Scheme
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UK ‘not making the most’ of universities’ soft power, MP says
US retreat means the UK has unique opportunity to become the ‘global destination of talent’, but risks squandering it, v-cs and politicians tell Labour conference
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Horizon Europe gets €500 million boost in final two years
New funding will finance research into a ‘nature-positive economy and society’ and preparations for the next, expanded Horizon programme
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Three convicted of kidnapping murdered Cambridge PhD student
The Egyptian security officers were tried in Rome after Giulio Regeni’s mutilated body was found on a Cairo roadside in 2016