Value of college degrees in question as US enrolment falls again
While a weaker measure than the autumn semester, data amplify concerns that higher education’s loss of value may reflect more than just Covid
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Eight providers face ‘boots-on-the ground’ OfS investigations
Following ministerial orders, England’s independent regulator will look at business and management courses, including online provision
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International student demand for UK degrees ‘set to soar’
Ucas also forecasts continued dominance of China among overseas applicants Â
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UK vice-chancellors staying in posts longer
Eight-year average ‘feels about right’ given need to get to know institutions and form strategies, says Hepi director
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Visa fraud fears as Australian universities target Indian market
Wavering Chinese demand has driven a dive into south Asia, where unwary recruiters ‘get burned’
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English university cuts set to hit struggling regions
Job and course cuts in England bring concern on impact of ministerial pressure, plus warnings that universities are ‘lazily misusing’ cost-of-living crisis
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The week in higher education – 26 May 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Is academic life in North Korea as strange and difficult as you think?
Even universities in the hermit kingdom largely cut themselves off from the rest of the world. Yet those few Westerners with direct experience of them suggest that while critical inquiry is...
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What the FRAP happens next? Four priorities for reforming the REF
The next exercise should clarify its purpose and language, relax its disciplinary focus and refine research culture, says James Wilsdon
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26 May 2022 digital edition
Smile you’re being watched: What is academic life in North Korea really like?
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Interview with Malcolm Gaskill
The historian discusses ‘glimpsing the nightmares’ of early colonial Americans in his Wolfson prize-nominated book on witchcraft, and why he took early retirement from academia
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Geneva calls in police over transgender talk no platforming
Protesters who disrupted gender theory book talk accuse university of ‘repression’ after criminal complaint lodged
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Habib: UK v-cs unwilling to build more equitable global academy
SOAS director says he’s seen little evidence colleagues are prepared to confront ‘difficult questions’ of African brain drain and ‘unequal’ relationships with institutions in the developing world
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Princeton fires professor critical of racial equity efforts
Joshua Katz dismissed after renewed probe of sexual misconduct case
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University of Macau edging us out, international academics fear
Researchers perceive weakening of institution’s international and multilingual atmosphere