The?redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge?
Average remuneration up by 8?per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for?former Johannesburg head
Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist
UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Australian visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession
Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of?directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of ?1.5 billion annual budget
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe
Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms
Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says
In another edition of gloomy research indicators, major NSF tally finds companies nearing the basic science spending of the federal government
Professor leading?Migration Advisory Committee?warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered
Efforts to recruit students from across the Taiwan Strait seen as attempt to boost sovereignty claim