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Scottish Highers: more young people heading to university

Pass rate in Scottish Higher exams nudges up but overall applications dip slightly?owing to decline in older learners

Students ¡®becoming anonymous¡¯ to academics as teaching load soars

Growing class sizes and expanding workloads blamed as students doubt those teaching them know who they are

¡®Critical moment¡¯ as Danish reforms add to pressure on languages

Enrolments drop by a fifth in a year after business school opts to close programmes in response to government squeeze on undergraduate intake

Controversial third medical school greenlighted in New Zealand

¡®Share the excitement¡¯, sceptics told, amid conflicting claims over rationale for graduate-entry programme

The UK funding crisis may just see the emergence of a stronger sector

A systemic realignment is under way that, while painful, could lead to more efficient and adaptable provision, say?Jonathan Barton and?Mike Boxall

UN experts urge end to Serbian ¡®crackdown¡¯ on student protests

Policing of demonstrations, often using excessive force, has intensified since June, special rapporteurs say

China¡¯s campus repression being ¡®partially replicated¡¯ in UK

Chinese students and scholars face surveillance, harassment and self-censorship at British universities, report finds, amid wider concerns over financial dependence on China

Australia to increase international student intake

Educators hail ¡®stability and certainty¡¯, as government stresses ¡®sustainable growth¡¯ mantra

New US graduates face ¡®bleak job landscape¡¯

Investors keen on takeovers as universities turn to private funds

Co-branded campuses and partial mergers expected to become more common in face of higher borrowing costs

¡®Old habits returning¡¯ as travel emissions rise by a quarter

Low carbon behaviours adopted during pandemic ¡®not being maintained¡¯, experts fear, as business flights push up environmental impact of institutions

Trump¡¯s anti-DEI agenda ¡®already having grave impact¡¯

Some universities shut down initiatives entirely while others try to continue them in different guise but president unlikely to be appeased on hot-button issue, say scholars

¡®We can¡¯t ask to turn the clock back. The resources just aren¡¯t there¡¯

As he begins his stint as Universities UK president,?Malcolm Press tells Helen Packer that the sector¡¯s demands of government need to be realistic about the constrained state of public finances and...

The GDPR is a new headache for social scientists

European universities¡¯ overcompliance with data protection rules is making social research increasingly difficult, say Carine Vassy and Robert Dingwall? ?