‘Tedious’ conferences dominated by authors with multiple papers
One researcher was found to have presented 32 papers at same conference in study that examines growing trend towards ‘repeat authors’
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Gayatri Spivak: ‘I’m not teaching to get students an income’
Winner of 2025 Holberg Prize rejects vocational focus of education and ‘trivialisation’ of humanities
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New REF rules ‘risk leaving researchers’ careers in limbo’
‘Existential crisis’ in arts and humanities exacerbates risk that axed academics will not be able to find new roles, subject associations fear
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It is too late for traditional branch campuses to succeed in India
To boost the scale, quality and affordability of Indian HE, collaborations that leverage local strengths are the best option, says Francois Therin
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Transform by addressing ‘sacred cows’, UK universities told
Expensive pension schemes among issues highlighted as institutions look for ways out of current turmoil
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Cardiff staff vote to strike as axe hangs over 400 academic jobs
Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures
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Universities offered little in eve-of-election Australian budget
Cost-of-living help unveiled for students, staff and graduates, but sector remains all but empty-handed
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Dundee cash crisis probe to examine ‘surprise’ deterioration
External team to investigate why financial concerns that have led to more than 600 planned job losses were not raised sooner
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Tech entrepreneur Tom Adeyoola to lead Innovate UK
Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair
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Redundancy tally at debt-struck Wollongong set to triple
Up to 185 more jobs in the frame, as restructuring of university switches from teaching to operations
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Go-slow internal research fraud probes ‘avoid external scrutiny’
Institutions taking ‘as long as they like’ over investigations to protect reputations, according to Australian research integrity campaigner
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Vetting call over ‘asshole’ PhD examiners, ‘trial-by-fire’ vivas
Survey of UK doctoral examiners reveals disquiet over problematic PhD examiners keen to initiate emotionally charged intellectual exchanges
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Influx of ‘unfunded students’ feared at New Zealand universities
Tally of unsubsidised students could reach thousands, representative body warns, after enrolments surpass projections
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It is too soon to create positions for émigré US academics
Conditions in many other countries remain far worse. And denuding US institutions of their best researchers is the last thing they need, says Luc Sels