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Have Schwarzman scholarships helped change views on China?
Prestigious programme that has brought international scholars to Tsinghua for past 10 years aims to foster ‘more nuanced view’ of Eastern giant – despite ever-changing geopolitics
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Axe threshold freeze to ‘show loan reform intent’, ministers told
Burnham government seen as more likely than Starmer to act on growing calls to relieve pressure on young graduates
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Enhanced research veto powers rushed through Australian parliament
Senate committee inquiry blocked and stakeholder objections ignored, as ‘wide-ranging’ powers become law
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AI tends to mark students’ essays higher than humans – study
LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways of relieving pressure on markers
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Manchester shows the possibilities and limitations of devolution
Devolved powers can better integrate the post-16 system but England’s national architecture pulls in the other direction, say Nic Beech, Fran Darlington-Pollock and John Blake
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Australia must enshrine university autonomy in law – UA chair
Democratic role needs protection from ‘creeping regulation’ and ‘populist backlashes’, says legal scholar
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Scotland’s HE minister resigns to focus on his health
Ben Macpherson leaves government after serving just three months in newly expanded role
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Burnham in EU fees balancing act as crunch talks loom
Any concessions made by new prime minister likely to be fiercely opposed by universities fearful of losing millions of pounds in income
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‘Islands of internationalisation’ risk as central Asian hubs grow
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan urged to ensure domestic universities and research systems benefit from branch campus push
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Shape up or lose funding, territory university told
Threat highlights uncertainty for dual-sector universities, with twice as many masters holding the purse strings
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‘Mismatched ambitions’: Stanford exits South Korean global campus
Elite US institution pulls plug on research centre in troubled internationalisation hub