Elite Indian engineering colleges to offer medical degrees
IIT Madras branches out as AI takes ever more important role in hospitals, but experts warn it could face many obstacles to achieving ambition
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Scotland’s universities face £200 million annual shortfall
Sector’s worsening financial situation laid bare by new analysis conducted as part of wide-ranging review of university system
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Dream of Neom U dies amid doubts over desert megacity plans
With its leadership team and political support gone, a proposed flagship research institution in Saudi Arabia is set to ‘quietly fade away’, experts believe
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Secondary and onshore Australian visas ‘next to be targeted’
Dependants and visa-hoppers reportedly in the frame of looming crackdown, as rejection rates remain at near-record levels
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AI policies are repeating every mistake of plagiarism policies
AI use is being framed as a binary of permitted or cheating, when for second-language writers it is a question of learning, says Özgür Çelik
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Graduates need to earn £63K to begin to reduce student debt
Just a quarter of those earning average UK salary 10 years after repayments kick in predicted to pay off their Plan 2 loans in full
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GUS completes takeover of Lincoln Bishop University
Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group
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Kent finances improve despite near £10 million drop in fee income
Long-delayed financial statement shows institution cut staff expenditure and brought in more grants to offset recruitment woes
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‘An earthquake in Chinese academia’: Tongji abolishes tenure
Shanghai’s leading research university has overhauled its faculty appointment system. Will other institutions in China follow suit?
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Distrust in institutions doesn’t extend to science or universities
Science and universities have ‘weathered a collapse in trust’ in many major UK institutions, although ‘shallow’ public support has not been stress-tested, research by Campaign for Science and...
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Governance ‘crisis’ claims overblown, says UA chief
Intellectual disagreements, broader societal problems and ‘governance 101’ are being misconstrued as blunders, Carolyn Evans claims
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Scholars and practitioners need not speak such different languages
Commercial events have persuaded me that intractable human problems can be overcome, but I’ve also been driven mad by flaky consultants’ glib analyses, says Adrian Furnham