Publishing my sexual misconduct story was liberating and empowering
Five years on, higher education’s attitude towards student-faculty relationships is very different, says a UK-based academic
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UK sector carbon emissions falling, but progress still ‘patchy’
About two-thirds of providers decreased their carbon emissions over the past year, Hesa data shows
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Scrap university tuition fees, urges Melbourne vice-chancellor
Eliminating fees would pay for itself through tax while boosting equity of access, Duncan Maskell insists
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Stay out of judging courses, regulator tells politicians
New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission head stresses need to regulate higher and vocational education together during UK visit
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Indian PhD diaspora leaves universities short of recruits
Doctoral students at home petition New Delhi for a 60Â per cent rise in stipends, amid rising living costs and appeal of overseas job market
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St George’s and City merger set to create ‘health powerhouse’
Union would end medical school’s 15-year search for a partner
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Republicans target universities over China and political research
In campaigns to isolate China and deny disinformation, federal lawmakers join angry activists in besieging universities and their researchers
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Can India achieve its ambitions for higher education?
The country’s National Education Policy aims to build a quality internationalised and marketised sector. But, says Saumen Chattopadhyay, it faces many entrenched challenges
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Universities should offer cash incentives to shrink carbon footprints
Climate income schemes can help institutions live up to declarations of a climate emergency, say Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs and Wolfram Möbius
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Arts ‘in firing line’ as crisis-hit UEA axes more than 100 jobs
University says 77 professional staff and 36 academics will go, on top of those taking voluntary severance
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Europe-Africa research clusters offer new model
Groups of leading African and European universities will jointly fund at least a decade of priority research through clusters agreed in the first half of this year, although the delicate details of...
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US campuses largely escape partisan hits on tenure and teaching
As annual legislative sessions conclude around the country, academic interference eases but budgetary hopes also fade away
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UK universities ‘letting down’ refugee applicants
Young people with asylum status say they struggle to get admissions teams to understand immigration rules and recognise their academic track records
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UK sector at ‘rock bottom’ as pay dispute derails graduations
Interventions from universities urging a restart of talks struggle to move the dial, with hopes of preventing summer of disruption fading
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Student well-being ‘worse than healthcare staff’ during pandemic
Study finds that students experienced psychological distress levels more than three times worse than before the pandemic