Generative AI is not just a tool for learning. It shapes how students think
Framing this technology as a helpful ‘tool’ disguises how much it guides every element of critical thinking that academics seek to cultivate, says James Garvey
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Whitehall cuts ‘undermining’ international education expansion
Smaller universities expected to be hardest hit by job losses in bodies supporting overseas growth
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Boost funding for joint HE-FE courses, ministers told
Partnerships between the higher and further education sectors currently dogged by power imbalances, critics say
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Lab research is ‘individual’, but running the show means teamwork
Lauded bench scientist-turned-administrator Anne Kelso reflects on gender balance, ‘keeping it real’ and why she left her ‘happy place in the lab’
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UCL axes ‘utopian’ Institute of Advanced Studies
Interdisciplinary research hub focused on arts and humanities will shut in July amid financial sustainability issues
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Fresh protests rock Iranian campuses after deadly crackdown
Students returning for a new semester reignite demonstrations and clash with pro-government groups, weeks after thousands killed or detained by regime
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Charles Darwin v-c steps down over accreditation errors
Sudden departure of Scott Bowman follows outcry over issues in dual-sector university’s training arm
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Turkish universities top Central Eurasia pilot ranking
First É«ºÐÖ±²¥ analysis on Turkic States reveals Turkey’s strength in depth and Kazakhstan’s international ties
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UK universities must resist call for ‘institutional neutrality’
Forcing institutions to remain neutral on contentious issues will stifle – not protect – academic freedom, argues Gavin Schwartz-Leeper
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Seven UK universities yet to file accounts months after deadline
FOI reveals that dozens of English providers applied for an extension from the Office for Students this year
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Fear of being flagged by AI detectors drives stress among students
Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear
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Boards must ‘keep out of day-to-day operations’, says president
New leader of the University of Washington warns job has become ‘more challenging than it has ever been’
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Political attacks on social science open the way to tech dystopia
Authoritarian regimes from the US to China and India perceive many humanities and social sciences as both useless and dangerous. But while their truths might be inconvenient, they are vital to...
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‘We’ve learned from the past’: Lib Dems eye student loans reform
Party unveils proposed changes to student finance system that it says would save graduates hundreds of pounds