The brief launch of an app promising to attend students’ lectures as well as write their assignments caused some academics to despair at a dystopian near-future in which learning becomes a pointless...
Unprecedented refusal rates raise fresh doubts over risk rating methodology as officials get tough on ‘non-genuine’ students
European destinations emerging as ‘legitimate rivals’ for international students because they are improving while US stagnates, argues paper
New right-wing president eyes reforms to student finance as part of wider austerity measures
Female early career scholars found to be ‘largely absent’ from higher-level governance structures in many European countries
Most students who work more than 23 hours a week report spending ‘zero minutes’ reading but scholars say time spent in employment not wholly bad academically
‘Weekend-only’ learners signed contracts in good faith before being suddenly told to repay money through no fault of their own, says NUS head
Universities set to miss out on promised funding after EU fraud office finds ‘irregularities’ at body that supports HE-business collaborations
Agricultural and environmental research lose out, as scientists criticise ‘dangerous confusion’ of government’s switch to ‘smarter investment’
Increase in visa refusals expected to be used as primary method for addressing asylum concerns for politically important nations
Historians say their ability to study material held in ‘mother lode of all 20th-century archives’ diminished by long suspension of vetting requests
Decades-old programmes among those being lost under new system that prioritises each institution’s traditional strengths
Employment increasingly elusive for foreigners blindsided by Australia’s steep cost of living