Nine out of 10 students get first or 2:1 at leading universities
Most students got a higher-class degree at every major institution in 2021-22, data show
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Which study destinations rely most on a few source countries?
Australia, New Zealand and Canada have some of the least diverse international student populations, data show
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Inside the post-ChatGPT scramble to create AI essay detectors
Edtech giants and plucky start-ups are vying to create potentially lucrative tools to combat the use of AI in assessments, but will they cause more problems than they solve?
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More fluid routes between academia and industry would boost innovation
Better alignment of pay and benefits, working cultures and expectations will clear the way for research to have impact, say nine Future Leaders fellows
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The website aiming to bring greater transparency to spin-outs
Analysis of the database suggests UK universities take greater equity in spin-outs than others in Europe
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NMITE seeks to tempt dissatisfied students by paying housing costs
Recently launched provider spends big in attempt to drive ‘exponential growth’ in student numbers
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The UK cannot afford to cut the M from STEM
Rishi Sunak's plan for mathematics to age 18 would come too late to save many university departments, says Ulrike Tillmann
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German university set to drop Kaiser name after review
Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster set to become the University of Münster
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Top Chinese graduate schools ‘pull up drawbridge on test takers’
Leading institutions switching from exams to interviews for admission, but students from many universities are excluded from this route
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Why don’t universities practise what they preach on climate?
Overheated buildings, meat-heavy menus and solar-panel-free roofs are not a good example, say Karin Bodewits and Philipp Gramlich
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Scottish university press slashes open access monograph costs
Jointly run open access publisher will offer lower cost route for Scottish researchers seeking to comply with new UKRI rules on monographs
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Number of UK academics employed on zero-hours contracts rises
Female academics are more likely to be employed on zero-hours contracts than male colleagues
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‘Bad apples’ tied to ‘organised abuse’ of Canadian student visas
Abuses at small private colleges seen as suggesting a nation overlooking immigration rules as it aggressively pursues foreign tuition dollars
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Speaking Russian banned at leading Ukrainian university
NaUKMA head defends dropping ‘language of aggressor’, despite concerns over freedom of expression
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Academic freedom trumps harm, but forgiveness beats vengefulness
It is excessive to demand the resignation of a US college leader who badly misjudged a student complaint about offence, says Jonathan Zimmerman