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Is authors’ treatment by publishers getting worse?

Complaints from authors abound about interminable delays, long silences, unfair rejections and shoddy copy-editing. But are standards really slipping? And, if so, where does the blame lie? Matthew...

Review whether students with no A levels should get loans – v-c

‘Difficult questions’ must be confronted as English funding system ‘not working for anyone’, says Birmingham’s Adam Tickell

Ministers urged to investigate students’ posts mourning Ayatollah

Islamic student groups in the UK say statements calling Iranian supreme leader a ‘martyr’ were ‘free speech’ and deny inciting violence

UK study visa ban for four countries ‘cruel and short-sighted’

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Women lead almost three in 10 of world’s best universities

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Lawmakers and universities push back on loan caps

Threat of libel ‘chilling academic freedom’, say UK researchers

Academics urge government to strengthen legal protections for scholars undertaking studies in controversial fields

Male university staff out-earn women by 10 per cent

Gender pay gaps worse at Australian universities than other educational institutions, as women dominate senior roles in administration but not academia

Middle East crisis could halt branch campus plans, experts warn

‘Inevitable’ that conflict will bring ‘serious’ repercussions, as universities forced to reassess how they operate in the region amid increased insecurity

Bureaucracy is putting universities on the wrong track to respond to AI

We cannot bureaucratise our way into producing better thinkers, any more than we can automate wisdom, says Akhil Bhardwaj