Australian opposition condemns ‘turgid and bureaucratic’ Atec

Government faces horse-trading in the Senate, as shadow minister flags outright rejection of bill to establish commission

Nicola Sturgeon: devolved tax system harming universities

Former first minister advocates for progressive taxes as way of funding higher education as debates ramp up over who should pay for university

Demand from Chinese students declines Down Under

Drop in visa applications reflects the social and economic factors affecting the behaviour of the world’s most globally mobile students, analysts say

TEF should ‘penalise universities for failing on racial equity’

Report flags how seven institutions that have achieved a coveted gold rating have black awarding gaps exceeding 25 percentage points

‘Worrying’ number of unverified English tests accepted in UK

‘Flexibility’ on testing in UK system ‘may worry government’ after review finds large variety of methods used to examine language skills

Will Argentina’s chainsaw massacre of science spark a chain reaction?

Argentina’s emboldened president Javier Milei declared in Davos that ‘the rebirth of the ideas of liberty’ in the Americas was spreading globally. With Chilean voters taking a similarly hard-right...

A university judged on graduate salaries is a dog wagged by its tail

We must better explain to school-leavers the intellectual, technical, creative and social benefits of higher education, says Brooke Storer-Church

New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’

Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study

UWL fined £150,000 by Ofqual over ‘serious rule breaches’

Regulator finds university failed to ‘exercise proper control’ of one of its external assessment centres

Kent and Greenwich hail ‘key milestone’ as merger terms inked

Greenwich to change name to London and South East University Group before Kent joins as new ‘superuniversity’ takes shape

Six takeaways from the international branch campus boom

Iranian students ‘trapped’ as study plans derailed post-protests

Having witnessed widespread death and destruction during brutal regime crackdown, students struggling to adjust describe feeling abandoned by their universities

Universities commissioner needed ‘to oversee mergers and cuts’

Call for government to create new position mirrored on role that already exists in further education, to help steer sector while avoiding excessive regulation

Research reforms ‘bigger than one budget’, lobbyists warn

Recommendations from strategic R&D review still unknown, but Australian representative groups want them funded anyway