Humanities cuts ‘harbinger’ of bleak future for Dutch sector
Area studies and languages at risk at Leiden University, with academics foreseeing humanities ‘apocalypse’
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Caps risk monoculture in Australian academia, economist warns
‘Revenue hit’ will undermine universities’ ability to recruit foreign faculty while driving more locals overseas
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Geopolitics underpins Australian caps, says policy analyst
International student crackdown partly a response to world of ‘fragmentation, competition and protectionism’
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Veteran reformer appointed Indonesian higher education minister
Scion of academic and ministerial family could champion ‘a push towards academic excellence’, but policy intent is ‘hard to read’
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World University Rankings 2025: the long and the short of it
The distribution of countries’ ranking positions reveals new insights
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Times Higher Education to host fourth Global Sustainable Development Congress
Global sustainability event in Istanbul on 16-19 June 2025 to convene 5,000-plus attendees
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How Asia’s corporate-owned universities made their mark
Multinational conglomerates have long been in the university business, but can they really compete when it comes to impact?Â
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Imran Khan out of Oxford chancellor race as candidates confirmed
Controversial Pakistani politician disqualified, but those making the cut include William Hague, Peter Mandelson, David Willetts and Elish Angiolini
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A measure of reality
A story of UK decline in this year’s rankings reflects higher education’s years out in the cold – a funding thaw is needed, but so too is sector-led reform
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Western universities ‘learn more’ from Global South collaboration
Manchester vice-chancellor says institutions must continue to work across borders in the face of political scepticism
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University attacks in democracies ‘embolden illiberal regimes’
Increasing trend for policies that attempt to undermine or overhaul higher education in US and Europe being exported worldwide, Scholars at Risk warns
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World University Rankings 2025: results announced
Oxford breaks record at number one spot, defying trend of declining UK reputationÂ
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Japanese students fear for safety in China after stabbing
Universities reconsider short-term programmes in China amid perceived rising hostility towards foreigners
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Chinese university closes Israel campus as relations ‘sour’
Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics closes Israeli outpost as faculty are unable to travel to the Middle East
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Israeli research increasingly isolated one year into Gaza war
Sector leaders fear ‘catastrophic’ damage to scholarship as overseas academics and students leave