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Australian study highlights gap between ¡®statistically significant¡¯ and ¡®meaningful¡¯

Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel

Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group¡¯s manifesto

Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world¡¯s media

Economic psychology professor discusses his first book, A Theory of Everyone, lessons learnt from a peripatetic childhood and how a need to ¡®manage risks¡¯ as an undergraduate inspired his multidisciplinary approach

Centre for Antiracist Research doesn¡¯t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup

Former minister wary of ¡®policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse¡¯

Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ¡®self-funding¡¯ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder

Technology¡¯s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ¡®human skills¡¯ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London

Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ¡®something more radical¡¯ or a review ¨C and what she really thinks about corduroy

Brain researcher¡¯s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row

Institutions struggle to navigate clash of reality of student drug use with conservative culture

Scale of unsuccessful funding bids will be ¡®dispiriting¡¯ for researchers and raises questions about ¡®substantial differences¡¯ in research landscape, Oxford professor warns

From fax machines to dawn of the internet, librarians are used to facing ¡®existential crises¡¯ and many are embracing the challenge of ChatGPT head on

Former adviser to Tory ministers criticises government for asking monarch to ¡®speak negatively of national asset¡¯

Federal case, one of several threats to nation¡¯s $16 billion college sports enterprise, could bring huge shift in power to students

Disagreements over equality issues mentioned in science secretary¡¯s Israel letter must be swiftly addressed, says ex-research council head

Late researcher¡¯s reform narrative chimes with Australian accord considerations

Sector leaders quizzed in Elsevier survey back shift to more holistic methods of evaluating scholarship

Despite pricey accommodation and high living expenses, learners continue to flock to Korean capital, amid perception of better quality education

Teaching and research have been run from different parts of Whitehall since 2016, and sector leaders say this has to change

Union misses 50 per cent threshold for first time since holding sector-wide votes, leaving future of dispute in the balance

Publishers face being ¡®mere service providers¡¯ under new vision, but critics question whether global adoption of proposals will be any wider than their predecessors

Campuses appear to be keeping their pandemic-era test-optional policies, but hesitate to distance themselves even further

Australian researchers propose alternative way of redistributing university resources, but warn it won¡¯t be easy

CUHK scholar sacked days after being denied re-entry to island says room for China-critical research is shrinking

Wiltshire-based engineering campus says it needs ¡®highest levels of skill and expertise¡¯ to compete globally

Favouring of candidates aligned to ruling party could do long-term damage to universities, scholars warn

¡®Free-for-all¡¯ approach blunts universities¡¯ impact in tackling complex societal challenges, says Australian consultant

Employers and members likely to save considerable sums sooner than expected as changes sped up due to improving finances

Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching ¨C but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ¡®can use Excel¡¯

They need the money and graduate students identify with them, but universities don¡¯t formalise the link, analysts warn

Charges and prohibitions introduced by the likes of X and TikTok are limiting academics¡¯ ability to use sites to gain valuable insights into human behaviour

Former Tory adviser advocates need for controls to reverse resource decline, but another expert sees ¡®block on access to education¡¯

Dame Ottoline Leyser issues statement to make position ¡®crystal clear¡¯ as academic concern mounts over government pressure

Mamokgethi Phakeng ¡®subverted policies and procedures¡¯ with council chair to ¡®shield themselves from accountability¡¯, report concludes

Rishi Sunak¡¯s recent attack on higher education expansion as ¡®one of great mistakes of the last 30 years¡¯ leaves questions on economics and politics

LGBQ students reported their straight peers gossiping about them and attempting to ¡®out¡¯ them

Former Warwick head Sir Nigel Thrift says reduced focus on outputs could undermine case for government support of UK research

While political protest a time-honoured tradition, ferocity of pro-Israel onslaught leaves academia to mull its true independence

Only a small minority of institutions adopting climate change policies common in the private sector, finds report

Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (?10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education

SCU decision the latest sign of doom for workplace agreements that lack union support

Learning of nearly 90,000 students in Gaza Strip disrupted as Israeli reprisals force universities to suspend operations

The paperwork burden is declining, but so are the prospects of obtaining funds, new data shows

Most-travelled US university president says sector must make hard calls on priorities, but has too few willing to do so

Group hopes to instigate culture change in UK higher education to stop ¡®toleration¡¯ of bullies

Dame Ottoline Leyser¡¯s acceptance of ministerial demands is likely to anger scholars who claim Michelle Donelan¡¯s criticism undermines academic freedom

Study says tools informing students which courses they are suited for can lead them to apply for those they are overqualified for

Drawing on Web of Science citation index, Clarivate report shows fivefold acceleration in published research output from China between 2009 and 2021

Union members at UCL claim to have been the ¡®victim of a smear campaign¡¯ as higher education minister calls them Hamas¡¯ ¡®useful idiots¡¯

Increased persecution of scholars in Iran and Afghanistan led to more than 400 attacks being perpetrated against academia globally, says Scholars at Risk report

Research ¡®challenges the view that barriers to university education are driven by socio-economic disadvantage¡¯

Palestinian scholars in Israel facing threats of violence and calls for their removal describe atmosphere of persecution

As US institutions¡¯ enthusiasm for collaborating with counterparts in Qatar and UAE wanes, China offers funding and language support to increase its influence

Employers increasingly wary of harming diversity drives with arbitrary thresholds

Warning comes alongside call for significant improvements in healthcare education and training

Trudeau¡¯s immigration minister accuses institutions of ignoring costs to students from abroad and demands a recalibration

Science secretary¡¯s condemnation of ¡®extremist posts¡¯ by UKRI equality advisers has led to accusations of ministerial ¡®bullying¡¯ and censorship