The UK’s university funding systems need a bold resetting
Subsidising domestic with international provision would not be tolerated in healthcare. How long before it unravels in HE, asks Mark Corver
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Queen’s University Belfast thrown out of Ucea over local pay deal
Institution says it stands by decision to offer staff wage rises in order to end marking boycott despite being ejected from national body
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UEA staff to strike over ‘needlessly cruel’ job cuts
Union threatens more walkouts unless management ‘work with us to avoid further job losses’
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AI text detectors ‘biased against non-native English speakers’
Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases
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Johnson: raise fee cap or risk universities ‘falling over’
Conservative former universities minister tables amendment to allow annual uprating, to ‘flush out’ Tory and Labour positions on ‘funding crisis’
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CityU chief’s ‘sea change’ puts focus on rising academic stars
Weeks into the job, Freddy Boey promises to cut red tape, rethink teaching – and unsparingly weed out underperformers
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‘Nervous’ recruiters look beyond degrees amid marking delays
Flexibility of big firms not replicated in most heavily regulated professions
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Papers that fail to replicate ‘less likely to be cited’
Scholars suggest reproducibility testing might be helping to self-correct psychological research
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Transition to net zero ‘will cost UK universities £37 billion’
All institutions face multimillion-pound price tag for decarbonising supply chains, built environment and transport systems, says study
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Class of 2023, I salute you
When faced with a real, full-bore crisis, this generation of supposed snowflakes just got on with it and coped better than I did, says Joe Moran
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US branch campuses in China face uncertain future
Geopolitical tensions between two superpowers force institutions to rethink collaborations forged in friendlier times
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English free speech rules ‘disturbing interference’ – Richardson
Ministers only want to protect freedom of speech that they agree with, claims former Oxford vice-chancellor
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Join our new Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings advisory board
THE is looking for people who are committed to a better sub-Saharan Africa and believe that higher education can contribute to bringing about that change
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Australia anoints latest university college
In a busy decade following two decades of inaction, the ranks of institutions bearing the ‘university’ title has expanded at almost one a year