Share agent ‘bad actor’ data with universities, Home Office told
New rules to make it easier to identify recruiters who push ‘fake’ students, but compliance experts fear government will not disclose who can and can’t be trusted
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The UK’s Erasmus return is a step in the right direction
Repairing the mega-fractures caused by Brexit matters for the EU. But it perhaps matters even more for the UK, says Francesco Billari
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Will anyone in England take up their lifelong learning entitlement?
The LLE is seen as a key part of maintaining employability in rapidly changing employment sectors. Yet with less than six months to go before applications open for the stand-alone modules central to...
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Professor targets record for running marathon in academic dress
Oxford scholar aims to complete London Marathon in under three and a half hours – if he can keep the mortar board on his head
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‘Beloved’ student radio station faces closure as funding pulled
Launching pad for mainstream media careers appears headed off the spools amid desperate search for new funder
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Essex unions declare ‘no confidence’ in v-c over job cuts
University apologises after some staff wrongly told they were at risk of redundancy but insists overall process has been ‘fair’
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Universities must ‘speak up more about value of humanities’
EU focus on fields most closely linked to economic gains a ‘growing threat’ to other disciplines, leaders fear
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Asia University Rankings 2026: methodology
Our methodology uses data on all aspects of Asian universities’ core missions
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Tasmania green-lights controversial university land sale
Proposal for riverside Hobart campus to proceed in pared-back form after sell-off of existing base agreed
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Sack ANU council, union says, after another deficit overestimate
ANU’s ‘academic performance remains strong’, university insists, amid call for governing body spill over overstated financial crisis
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Asian and African students flock to China for STEM degrees
China’s flagship Belt and Road initiative continues to pay off as students from priority regions take up degree programmes, but post-pandemic recovery still ongoing
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Science too driven by political causes, third of UK voters fear
Scientific researchers urged to ‘reach beyond own circles’ after polling shows their views skew more to the left
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Whistleblower has ‘no confidence’ in ombudsman after ANU probe
Former head of music school says decision not to revisit his complaints shows system ‘worse than useless’
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The British lawyer using US courts to fight research fraud
After winning a spectacular legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells Jack Grove about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why...