Revised TEF ‘unfairly penalises smaller institutions’
New English quality framework over-reliant on data to measure student experience, critics fear
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Advertising watchdog rebukes student site over ‘misleading’ posts
StudySmarter warned over job listings set up to capture contact information
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Staff demand Deakin suspend job cuts after shock v-c resignation
University declines to answer questions from staff or the media, with restructure plans affecting hundreds of jobs continuing despite leadership vacuum
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Europe’s university alliances must go further to truly integrate HE
The central goal should be simple: seamless student movement without obstacles regarding the recognition of courses, says Gregor Majdič
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Physics postdocs ‘losing faith in UK careers’ after STFC cuts
Only 8 per cent of early career physicists would advise others to pursue career in UK research after downturn in postdoc funding, survey finds
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Scottish education minister condemns 190 more job cuts at Dundee
University says further savings needed to ‘survive’ but Màiri McAllan urges pause to ‘interrogate the evidence’
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‘Brain architects, not babysitters’: Norland aims for university title
Amid concern over graduate outcomes and the declining value of a degree, one UK higher education provider that boasts a practically perfect employability record is setting its sights on official...
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Scores of universities join interdisciplinary research network
Higher education institutions across 15 countries join global programme focusing on best practice and cross-border partnership
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Compliance ‘more important than education’ on research ethics
The likelihood of investigation and the severity of punishment have most influence on whether experienced academics take a chance on dodgy research
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Populist parties flag international education crackdown
Maverick Australian politicians vow to deport dropouts and slash enrolments, as erstwhile fringe party claims the ascendancy
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Specialist master’s ‘main victims’ of course-cutting spree
More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone
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Fee hike in French-speaking Belgium ‘shifts burden on to students’
Rising cost of tuition more about plugging government deficit than helping fund higher education, say rectors
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The risk of collaboration with China is smaller than the cost of curbing it
National security is not strengthened by making Australia smaller and less attractive to scientific talent, say James Laurenceson and Wanning Sun
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Sheffield Hallam drops plan to employ staff via subsidiary firm
University to keep employing academics directly after predictions that contribution rates to Teachers’ Pension Scheme will come down