UK universities strike deal with four major publishers
Universities can decide on publishing deals after terms agreed with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis
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UA92 to open campus at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium
Classes to be held at iconic venue on non-matchdays as footballers’ institution seeks to counter international student shortfall
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Students lament possible closure of Cambridge veterinary courses
University leaders considering internal recommendation to cease veterinary education after regulators extended conditional accreditation of degrees
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‘Genie out the bottle’ on franchising despite new rules
Analysis shows that one provider has increased its number of subcontracted students by 500 per cent
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Enhanced scrutiny of foreign donations a ‘vote winner’ for Trump
White House plans to launch new ‘state-of-the-art’ foreign funding reporting portal expected to increase scrutiny of universities
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Universities must respond to students’ emotional reliance on AI
If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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‘Half in, half out’ approach to REF 2029 outputs ‘not enough’
Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books
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Susan Lapworth to leave the Office for Students
Chief executive becomes latest to depart English regulator after nearly four years in charge
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Adequate staffing for every course in new oversight ‘blueprint’
Funding must be part of the conversation, crossbench senators warn, as final report of Australian governance inquiry published
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Academics far more likely to reply to elite university students
Researchers sent emails to authors of recently published papers to test how much prestige matters in access to academic resources
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Overpayments persist despite Australian student debt overhaul
Charging interest on loans already repaid would be illegal in other sectors, senator highlights
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Last-minute REF changes ‘show how far things drifted off course’
Decision to row back reforms demonstrates difficulties of using process to engineer social change, critics say, with little clarity over how newly revised ‘people’ section will work
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Student governors sidelined despite expanding role, report warns
Efforts to ensure student voices are heard on university boards often ‘tokenistic’, with ‘invisible barriers’ placed on participation