The unlikely battle over research at the Olympic Games
Sports scientists are working with athletes to enhance performance and safeguarding ahead of this year’s Paris games, but on-the-ground research is a hotly debated subject
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Australian R&D spend ‘heading for 1980s levels’
Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed
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Assessment and curriculum design can’t ignore how students use AI
Instead of viewing GenAI only as a threat, we should embrace it as an opportunity to reform our outdated approaches, says Dorottya Sallai
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Phillipson to respond to university funding crisis this week
Education secretary to update parliament amid reports of three institutions heading close to bankruptcy
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Goldsmiths under siege: can a once-radical university survive?
College says latest round of cuts will secure its future but academics wonder whether much of what made the institution special will be left
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Paris university ‘among first’ private Greek branch campuses
Sorbonne Paris North University to transform existing college partnership into non-profit university following passing of March law allowing private institutions
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Indian university rejects teaching ‘unconstitutional’ Hindu text
National Education Policy prioritises Indian knowledge, but many are against embedding certain historical documents into the curriculum
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Banning lecture capture would not free students from loneliness
We should not deprive numerous hard-pressed students of valuable flexibility merely to ensure that the ‘undeserving’ don’t skip classes, say five experts
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Focus on intersectionality won’t close the UK’s degree-awarding gaps
While there are ethnic, class and gender penalties, Sean Brophy found no evidence of an extra penalty for falling into more than one category
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Universities caught up in global IT outage
Computer systems, library resources and payments disrupted by defective Crowdstrike software update
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Private college faces regulator investigation
Applied Business Academy faces scrutiny over management and governance arrangements, as well as data reporting
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Chinese language departments redraw courses in response to AI
Changing student expectations and labour market challenges also drive shift towards interdisciplinary programmes
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Geoffrey Alderman: public sector critic unrepentant on retirement
Outspoken enemy of sector regulators steps down as principal of private college, more than six decades after entering higher education sector
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Donations to UK universities hit new high
Data from Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that providers received £2.2 billion in donations and endowments last year
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For better sector PR, we must update popular views of university success
Modern universities make up over half of the UK sector, yet their vital work flies under journalists’ and politicians’ radars, says Amanda Broderick