Interview with Michael Muthukrishna
Economic psychology professor discusses his first book, A Theory of Everyone, lessons learnt from a peripatetic childhood and how a need to ‘manage risks’ as an undergraduate inspired his...
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Boston clears Kendi on finances but management probes continue
Centre for Antiracist Research doesn’t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup
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Johnson: King’s Speech degrees line a ‘culture wars dog whistle’
Former minister wary of ‘policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse’
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UUK chief: minister’s funding rebuff ‘not end of conversation’
Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy
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Marijuana scandals test Japanese university leaders
Institutions struggle to navigate clash of reality of student drug use with conservative culture
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‘Shockingly low’ ESRC success rates raise social sciences alarm
Scale of unsuccessful funding bids will be ‘dispiriting’ for researchers and raises questions about ‘substantial differences’ in research landscape, Oxford professor warns
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Sacked professor plans defence union for whistleblower academics
Brain researcher’s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row
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Call to fund degrees via ‘advance’ on future student earnings
Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder
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Focus on employability as AI takes graduate roles, says report
Technology’s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ‘human skills’ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London
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Teaching at AI-focused university adapts as advances are made
Classes at world’s first postgraduate AI institution can pivot mid-course to explore breakthroughs, says MBZUAI acting provost
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The UK’s nitrous oxide ban will be no laughing matter for campus security
Unless we get an X-ray machine, the guard room will be inadvertently signing for dubious deliveries for the foreseeable future, says George Bass
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The UCU’s failure on working conditions is not all down to Jo Grady
The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones
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Rise of AI marks new chapter for university librarians
From fax machines to dawn of the internet, librarians are used to facing ‘existential crises’ and many are embracing the challenge of ChatGPT head on
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King’s Speech ‘poor quality degrees’ reference ‘beyond belief’
Former adviser to Tory ministers criticises government for asking monarch to ‘speak negatively of national asset’
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Billions at stake as US student athlete lawsuit wins group status
Federal case, one of several threats to nation’s $16 billion college sports enterprise, could bring huge shift in power to students