Budget national insurance hike ‘costs universities £372 million’
Chancellor goes ahead with 1.2 percentage point increase, hiking staff costs for already cash-strapped institutions
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Blackman leaves Open University role early after cancer diagnosis
Vice-chancellor steps down after five years at the helm to focus on treatment
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Imperial launches new California tech hub
Highly ranked UK university sets up first physical presence on other side of the Atlantic
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Students ‘not using AI as much as academics think’
‘Over-regulation’ feared as actual use of new technologies lags far behind perceptions of university staff
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Disabled students are badly served by furore over ‘unfair’ accommodations
Misleading claims that some undergraduates are unjustly receiving extra help obscure how many universities are actually failing to provide sufficient support to disabled students, says Chris Pepin-...
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Labour’s first budget can help universities deliver regional impact
Devolving research and skills funding to metro mayors would allow universities to drive innovation-led economic growth, says Neal Juster
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Ian Boyd: policymaking ‘should be more experimental’
Researchers need to get politicians to focus on addressing underlying issues instead of short-term problems, according to former chief scientific adviser
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Online encyclopedia is alternative model for scholarly publishing
As pre-Wikipedia resource enters its 25th year, pioneers eye new applications as well as new languages
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Self-citations: are they good or bad?
Concerns around scholars using excessive self-citations are valid, but banning them entirely is not the right approach, says David WatkinsÂ
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Oxford Brookes removes ‘unfair’ clauses from student contracts
University among the latest providers to be referred to National Trading Standards by English regulator
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Australian vice-chancellor quits amid redundancy plans
University leaders under ‘extraordinary pressure’ amid funding crisis, says departing University of Southern Queensland chief
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Nobel economist Simon Johnson: ‘big tech doesn’t like our ideas’
Sheffield-born laureate on his hometown’s influence, his PhD struggles and why social media should be taxed like smoking
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Empty lectures aren’t just dismaying – they’re a social justice issue
With ethnic minority students missing disproportionately more classes, traditional timetabling risks widening attainment gaps, says Christopher Byrne
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Team research pilot tackles dominance of principal investigators
Alternative to traditional principal investigator-led approach aims to bring different voices to the fore
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Latin America University Rankings 2024: methodology
The World University Rankings performance indicators are the heart of the Latin America University Rankings, but we make some adjustments to take account of the region’s unique characteristics