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Independent providers ‘ready-made solution’ to UK’s problems

Newly appointed chair of Independent Higher Education on weeding out bad actors, complementing traditional universities and the perks of small teams

Israel’s gender-segregated courses ‘a threat to academic quality’

Critics warn new law that expands segregation to postgraduate degrees will not be easy to undo, even if Netanyahu loses upcoming election

Explosive rise in Australian sector income masks individual pain

Serial deficits plague universities that have failed to recover their pre-pandemic international revenue, analysis finds

Fewer universities ‘does not always equal better’, Vietnam warned

Country’s aim to shrink sector 20 per cent using mergers likely to have mixed results

Of the five stages of AI grief, some managers are stuck in denial

Acceptance is not surrender. It is about getting beyond a policing obsession and rethinking what assessment aims to measure, says Shadi Mohamed

Editor’s note: the Jason Arday case and Times Higher Education

In examining sociologist’s PhD thesis, our journalists were seeking to address matters of legitimate public interest, writes Chris Havergal

Mexican university suspends admissions after cheating scandal

Tens of thousands of applicants will have to redo tests after anomalies in entrance exam scores at National Autonomous University of Mexico

Are new loan limits driving down college costs?

Half of student sexual assaults involve drug or alcohol use

Substance abuse a clear risk factor as one in five Oxford students report being assaulted in second university-wide survey

Overseas students ‘shouldn’t be blamed for institutional failings’

‘Accurate and uncomfortable’ cash cow narrative framing how foreign students are treated in UK, finds report

Ukrainian studies in ‘crisis’ despite rising demand in Europe

Most universities still treat Ukraine as a marginal topic even as need for specialists with deep knowledge of the country rises

Security screening undermines UK universities’ EDI proclamations

Forcing Chinese nationals to identify themselves to institutional IT systems publicly stamps them as risks to be monitored, says Hu Chao

Will the cockroach movement achieve lasting change in Indian HE?

India’s largest protest in years was sparked by the leaking of a medical entrance exam and ended with the first senior political resignation of the Modi era. But it is unclear whether a change of...

Is chemistry teaching over-reliant on technology?

Expert fears students are too often passively observing vital processes without gaining practical understanding but others say discipline should lean in to modern approaches

Chinese academics in England face ‘microaggressions’

Scholars considering leaving as result of getting stuck in junior positions and complaints about their work and accents