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12 September

Russell Group ‘should cap private school intake at 10 per cent’

12 September

Researchers urge end to post-holiday funding call deadlines

By Emily Dixon

12 September

Academic networking: a cynic’s game?

Junior scholars are urged to do all they can to build bridges with the people who can give them jobs and promotions. But how calculating should they be about who to approach? How should they do it? And isn’t it all a bit grubby? Six established academics explain their perspectives

By Lee Cronin

12 September

Students arriving for Manchester University's freshers week queue up at a cash machine in Manchester, England.

You may not like fees, but a hike is English HE’s only realistic salvation

12 September

People have built a Cardboardistan, a cardboard city, in the Kasarmitori square at the Night of the Arts, Taiteiden Yo, Helsinki, Finland to illustrate Relaxed thesis requirements ‘devalue’ PhD, candidates fear

Relaxed thesis requirements ‘devalue’ PhD, candidates fear

11 September

Rankings

More than 2,000 universities in World University Rankings for first time

Milestone marks biggest rise in number of ranked universities in five years

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Events

Global Sustainable Development Congress 2025

16 June - 19 June 2025

Istanbul, Turkey

Campus

Five steps to prevent disengagement

By Layal Hakim

North America

I Am Captcha: ‘Ghost’ Students and the AI Machine

By Adam Bessie, Jason Novak

21 February

What Are College Presidents Saying About Trump? Not Much.

By Josh Moody

21 February

Ahead of Court Hearing, Chaos Reigns at NIH

By Kathryn Palmer

21 February

Universities can fix America’s broken credit transfer system

By Lauren Schudde

10 October

Europe

Can collective pay bargaining survive in the UK?

By Tom Williams

10 October

Russell Group ‘should cap private school intake at 10 per cent’

12 September

Elite universities commit to pre-entry courses for refugees

12 September

UK universities warned of more legal action over course closures

12 September

Asia

Is China turning away from international research collaboration?

12 September

South Korea needs a solution to student visa overstaying

By Kyuseok Kim

9 September

African students on wrong side of China’s ‘two-track’ system

By Helen Packer

6 September

India needs to slash the number of universities and colleges

By Manigandan Ganesan

6 September

Australia & New Zealand

Red Australian earth slips through Indigenous Australian’s fingers

Australia’s international caps will hurt Indigenous students most of all

By Barry Judd

13 September

Australian caps bill faces delay

12 September

International student caps ‘as bad as ARC vetoes’: UA chair

11 September

More Australians repaying student loans early

10 September

News

UK universities warned of more legal action over course closures

Goldsmiths and Chichester cases could be start of rising tide of court challenges from aggrieved students, lawyers say

12 September

Entrance of St Mary the Virgin church in Oxford

Russell Group ‘should cap private school intake at 10 per cent’

Radical proposal to overhaul admissions to the UK's research-intensive universities would tackle ‘elite formation’, say LSE and Oxford professors

12 September

A woman is sitting on the quayside waiting for the boat with her luggage in Lidingo, Sweden to illustrate Grant deadlines ‘create disparity’

Researchers urge end to post-holiday funding call deadlines

September and January deadlines disadvantage some and consume time off, academics say

By Emily Dixon

12 September

Australian caps bill faces delay

12 September

Elite universities commit to pre-entry courses for refugees

12 September

Governments ‘want branch campuses to support development’

12 September

Is China turning away from international research collaboration?

12 September

Josh Smalley: academics can learn a lot from bakers

12 September

Relaxed thesis requirements ‘devalue’ PhD, candidates fear

By Emily Dixon

11 September

‘Long-lasting effect’ of Canada international enrolment nosedive

11 September

Redundancy bad practice ‘widespread’ across UK universities

11 September

International student caps ‘as bad as ARC vetoes’: UA chair

11 September

In-depth

Features

By Tom Williams

Can collective pay bargaining survive in the UK?

Diverging financial pressures are putting untold strain on common pay and pension arrangements. As recent pay awards constrain richer universities’ ability to reward their staff as they see fit while pushing others into further strife, might a breaking point be close? Tom Williams reports

10 October

Universities can fix America’s broken credit transfer system

Providing a pathway from little-known community colleges to highly acclaimed universities, America's credit transfer system is internationally admired for driving social mobility and offering a vital ‘second chance’ for late bloomers. But opaque and complex university rules are undermining one of US higher education’s great achievements, argue Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar.

Trinity college at the University of Cambridge, England. Men standing at closed door with sign reading 'College to to visitors' to illustrate Elitism cannot be fixed without Oxbridge admissions reform

UK elitism cannot be fixed without Oxbridge admissions reform

A merit-based admissions lottery and strict caps on how many private school pupils go to Russell Group universities are necessary for a more egalitarian society, argue Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman

Opinion

By Lucy Hunter Blackburn

Athena Swan’s ‘all-embracing’ equality vision may not serve women

Next year’s review must consider why the equality charter now views ‘gender as a spectrum’, in addition to questions of cost and effectiveness, says Lucy Hunter Blackburn

5 September

It’s time to honour South Africa’s forgotten Black student leaders

Universities should reflect upon the intellectual life and sacrifices of South Africa’s student activists as they mark milestones, says Mashupye Maserumule

Two people cycle past bombed buildings in Ukraine

The UCU has botched its Ukraine policy again

Call for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ is scarcely better than the ‘stop arming Ukraine’ motion that led to resignations a year ago, says Christopher Phelps

University mergers can work but aren’t a sure-fire way to save money

By Malcolm Prowle

2 September

Blocking Tories’ free speech law will not help to protect Jewish students

By Akua Reindorf

30 August

Time for quiet v-cs to voice HE’s moral mission

By Geoff Mulgan

29 August

Is a 40-hour-week still feasible for performing arts students?

By Randall Whittaker

28 August

World policy

South Korea needs a solution to student visa overstaying

A boom in international enrolments has brought many benefits, but public concerns about visa abuse are rising, says Kyuseok Kim

Editor's pick

Game of Thrones intrigue is not a feature of Adelaide University merger, says v-cs

Adelaide University merger is no Game of Thrones

Speculation over imagined backstabbings and betrayals is rife but the joining of two of Australia’s universities is more of a meeting of minds than clash of clans, insist vice-chancellors Peter Høj and David Lloyd

The newsroom blog

Caps, curbs and crises

Planned recruitment caps in Australia reflect a global shift in attitudes to internationalisation, exacerbating the woes of universities on multiple fronts

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Talking leadership

By Tom Williams

Nancy Rothwell: ‘In the end they stopped offering me pay rises’

Departing Manchester vice-chancellor discusses sector finances, pay gaps and letting go after 14 years

11 July

Cynthia Teniente-Matson on running 'Silicon Valley's university'

The president of San José State University on harnessing location to build partnerships, the importance of representation and why she isn’t a ‘traditional academic’

By Rosa Ellis

10 July

Andrew Parfitt, the University of Technology Sydney vice-chancellor and president

Andrew Parfitt: ‘our work gets into the world quickly’

University of Technology Sydney head on achieving impact on policy and sustainability by building partnerships, fossil fuel divestment and boosting Indigenous enrolment

By Rosa Ellis

11 June

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