US housing woes derail efforts to help low-income students
Berkeley dormitory crisis offers broad warning that higher education won’t meet equity goals if students have no place to live
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Local focus for university-business links in UK ‘too narrow’
Major survey of almost 4,000 firms finds work with institutions at national and international level is a large slice of collaboration activity
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Our to-do lists can’t grow forever. It’s time to try subtraction
The default mode of human problem-solving is to add complexity. But we must try harder to resist, say Leidy Klotz and Robert Sutton
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UK hails ‘significant savings’ as Elsevier open access deal struck
Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals
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Western scholars appeal to Russian colleagues to ‘end bloodshed’
Signatories of letter urging peace include dozens of top academics and Nobel prizewinner
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Sexual misconduct still rife in Australian universities
Huge national survey finds that half of students know little or nothing about formal reporting mechanisms
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Students ‘could save £40K’ by cancelling gap years before reforms
Potential for ‘mass cancellation of gap years’ in rush for 2022 entry as finance expert warns 2023 starters could face huge hike in costs
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Spike in dropouts forcing Japanese to focus on student well-being
University leavers jumped 40 per cent in 2021, according to government figures
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Is globalisation dead? And what would this mean for universities?
War in Ukraine may reshape university internationalisation, but most academics do not expect a knockout blow
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The false market in degrees is ruining higher education
Universities’ oligarchic control of degree provision and metrics’ misguided focus are shortchanging both students and academics, says Murdoch Gabbay
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UK ministers urged to bridge post-Brexit EU structural funds gap
University-led projects ‘directly supporting local employers, jobs, and communities’ at risk, UUK tells government
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India and Australia pledge mutual degree recognition
‘Task force’ to facilitate two-way flow of students and graduates
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Sewell controversy at Nottingham ‘shows free speech bill needed’
Withdrawal of honorary degree from government race review chair raises Tory ire, while OfS chief executive says legislation would allow it to act on such cases
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Russia bars academics from international conferences
Researcher shrugs off ban, saying Russians are ‘used to avoiding such useless regulations’
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Bristol picks King’s vice-president Evelyn Welch as v-c
Renaissance historian will be first woman to lead the Russell Group institution