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
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Marking boycotters face heavy sanctions as assessments disrupted
Edinburgh extends pay deductions to those who refuse to cover for colleagues taking part in industrial action
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Universities too reliant on cuts to balance the books – Blunkett
Former education secretary says mergers the solution for institutions in financial crisis as he calls for more ‘ambition’ in higher education
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Two-fifths ‘unable to express views’ on some humanities courses
Hitherto unpublished Australian data unpacks the institutions and disciplines where freedom of expression is particularly ‘constrained’
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The outsourcing of my job mirrors what is happening in the UK sector
Universities are using a short-term cash crunch to make long-term structural changes, including greater reliance on private providers, says Glyn Robbins