AI: transformative for university teaching or ‘CV bullet point’?
Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching – but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ‘can use Excel’
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Postdocs undervalued as PhD mentors
They need the money and graduate students identify with them, but universities don’t formalise the link, analysts warn
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Research ethics courses must reflect academics’ diverse backgrounds
Many researchers need more help to negotiate a wide array of ethical issues, from identity to genetic engineering, says Aymen Idris
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UKRI pledges commitment to free speech amid equality body row
Dame Ottoline Leyser issues statement to make position ‘crystal clear’ as academic concern mounts over government pressure
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Cape Town v-c ‘used threats, intimidation and ethnic slurs’
Mamokgethi Phakeng ‘subverted policies and procedures’ with council chair to ‘shield themselves from accountability’, report concludes
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Focus on team science ‘ideology’ could ruin REF, warns former v-c
Former Warwick head Sir Nigel Thrift says reduced focus on outputs could undermine case for government support of UK research
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Why do the Tories keep talking about Blair’s 50 per cent target?
Rishi Sunak’s recent attack on higher education expansion as ‘one of great mistakes of the last 30 years’ leaves questions on economics and politics
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US campuses confront extent of donor influence after Israel rows
While political protest a time-honoured tradition, ferocity of pro-Israel onslaught leaves academia to mull its true independence
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‘Hostile atmosphere’ for queer students on Japanese campuses
LGBQ students reported their straight peers gossiping about them and attempting to ‘out’ them
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Talking leadership: Michel Mawad on riding out the storm in Lebanon
Michel Mawad fights to keep the lights on at Lebanese American University and its teaching hospitals, and to keep staff while supporting students amid economic and political crisis. But he’s not...
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Universities must put their money where their mouths are on liberal arts
Innovative programmes to revive student interest in the humanities are great, but they must be properly funded and staffed, says an academic
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UKRI faces mounting pushback over equality panel ‘capitulation’
Academics resign from voluntary positions after funder follows ‘strong preference’ of minister ‘outraged’ by posts on Israel-Hamas conflict, with union warning that more could follow
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Sector urged to step up climate measures like carbon pricing
Only a small minority of institutions adopting climate change policies common in the private sector, finds report
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US university fined $38 million for PhD cost ‘lies’
Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (£10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education
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Employment umpire quashes Australian university staff deal
SCU decision the latest sign of doom for workplace agreements that lack union support