The recent decision by the largest preprint server, arXiv, to cap individual submissions has sharpened the debate about how to protect the quality and integrity of the scientific literature when AI is turbocharging low-quality output. Frances Jones reports

The former universities minister says the sector’s financial crisis will worsen unless ministers get on with legislating for annual fee rises. But 10 years on from introducing the Higher Education and Research Act, he tells Jack Grove that it is right to put the student interest front and centre in a high-fees era