One in four in England think fewer people should attend university
Public survey reveals divides among voting, class, age and educational background on the value of higher education
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OfS: English universities must ‘equip students with skills’ to succeed
Regulator proposes new conditions of registration that also include standard on grade inflation
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Research intelligence: carrying out community-led research
Community-led research is often seen as a social justice response to centuries of exploitative study, but exponents say it also produces better science
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Academic freedom should not end at disciplinary boundaries
We increasingly need to protect not only our freedom of speech as scholars but also our freedom of thought, says Keith Burnett
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Good universities have nothing to fear from the OfS’ quality crackdown
It is not in the interests of institutions with high-quality provision to offer courses that fall short of the mark, says OfS chair Lord Wharton
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US judge rejects protections that aid foreign-born students
Court order has little immediate effect but has generated new Democrat vows to seek citizenship for child immigrants
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US faculty pay drops for first time since Great Recession
Pandemic drove down wages at two-thirds of institutions, AAUP annual survey finds
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University staff less happy and more anxious than UK average
Sizeable number of staff members struggled over course of pandemic and are suffering from chronic stress and exhaustion, researchers say
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MIT digital learning dean quits as edX sale backlash grows
Nobel laureate among professors vowing to move courses on to non-profit alternative platform after deal with 2U
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India’s new education minister must push for university autonomy
Dharmendra Pradhan faces an uphill struggle to implement the new National Education Policy, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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New wave of redundancies sweeps Australian universities
Hundreds of roles at risk as fresh wave of coronavirus restrictions sweeps across country
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Digital degree transcripts ‘vital for refugee graduates’
Students from Syria and Sudan unable to progress because of lack of access to certificates
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Post-pandemic recovery requires radical interdisciplinarity
A multidisciplinary approach to the issue of attention is an experiment in charting genuinely new intellectual territory, says Marion Thain
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Putting the social back into social media
We need to work against the grain of platforms that incentivise us to behave in unscholarly ways, argues author
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Critical race theory’s demonisation bodes ill for social justice research
Right-wing politicians’ caricaturing of a mature research approach is a social dominance power play, says Steve Raven