Graduate employment gap at record level in under-fire statistics

Falling employment among those who don’t have degrees drives up jobs gap but annual figures to be stopped amid questions over their quality

Impact Rankings 2025: methodology

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings measure global universities’ success in delivering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we explain how we arrive at the results for the...

Could generative AI improve the REF?

The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole...

Outward-facing Estonian universities ‘held back by Russia border’

Internationalisation and increased research funding could help country replicate success in primary education but neighbour’s long-running war is leaving its mark, says minister

Cutbacks and mergers no ‘magic bullet’ for ailing universities

Risk of ‘progressively more destructive patterns of behaviour’ as UK institutions find themselves increasingly ‘boxed in’

Business schools ‘could exit apprenticeships’ after funding axe

Programmes at risk at a time when more employers want to train their staff at higher level, say leaders

AI is improving our rankings, but human expertise will remain vital

Large language models are becoming a powerful complement to human judgement in the validation process for our sustainability-focused rankings, says Victor Melatti 

UK immigration policy is destabilising international academics’ careers

The effort of staying compliant with fluctuating regulations diminishes the mental space for teaching, research and building belonging, say Zahra Sharifonnasabi, Fleura Bardhi and Laetitia Mimoun

Less than half of academics happy with work-life balance

Satisfaction with pay and benefits lags well behind other sectors but career development improving, survey finds

Universities lucky to avoid graduate visa ‘red card’, says v-c

Activities such as marketing MRes courses to circumvent dependants ban will only prompt tougher rules, according to Adam Tickell

Chapel Hill board finally votes to award tenure after delays

Research England to track how REF funding improves EDI outcomes

Pilot exercise will gather information on how quality-related funding is used to address EDI, according to new action plan

AI tool uses enrolment information to pinpoint disengagement

Universities should not overlook artificial intelligence for student support purposes, says machine learning expert

Russian students ‘told not to consider UK’ amid ‘hostile climate’

Number of Russians coming to the UK for study has ‘collapsed’ during war in Ukraine, with visa policy, links to Kyiv and feelings of not being welcome adding up to ‘unofficial ban’

Russell Group aims for ‘transparency’ in contextual admissions

Research intensive universities to adopt ‘consistent’ language to help applicants ‘make better informed decisions’ as part of new plan to tackle education inequality