Faces of 2025: who shaped higher education headlines this year
Times Higher Education journalists name the change-makers at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months
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Colleges in limbo amid ‘two-year wait’ for degree-awarding powers
Institutions warn delays after reopening of English sector registrations are jeopardising their financial sustainability
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Disadvantaged students ‘worst hit’ by humanities fee hike
Former administration’s tuition fee reforms undermining Albanese government mission to promote equitable enrolments
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Zootopia 2 shows academia the way on combating harm
Disney’s latest film highlights that behind symbolic progress on ‘complex’ issues often lies a fear of genuine change, says Éile Rasmussen
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UK universities report ongoing deficits after ‘difficult year’
Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast and Leicester record shortfalls for the second year in a row as latest accounts highlight sector-wide financial challenges
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UK universities strike deal with four major publishers
Universities can decide on publishing deals after terms agreed with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis
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UA92 to open campus at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium
Classes to be held at iconic venue on non-matchdays as footballers’ institution seeks to counter international student shortfall
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Students lament possible closure of Cambridge veterinary courses
University leaders considering internal recommendation to cease veterinary education after regulators extended conditional accreditation of degrees
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‘Genie out the bottle’ on franchising despite new rules
Analysis shows that one provider has increased its number of subcontracted students by 500 per cent
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Enhanced scrutiny of foreign donations a ‘vote winner’ for Trump
White House plans to launch new ‘state-of-the-art’ foreign funding reporting portal expected to increase scrutiny of universities
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Universities must respond to students’ emotional reliance on AI
If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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‘Half in, half out’ approach to REF 2029 outputs ‘not enough’
Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books
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Susan Lapworth to leave the Office for Students
Chief executive becomes latest to depart English regulator after nearly four years in charge
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Adequate staffing for every course in new oversight ‘blueprint’
Funding must be part of the conversation, crossbench senators warn, as final report of Australian governance inquiry published