AI risks undermining the heart of higher education

If students don’t make the effort to comprehend, synthesise and relate ideas for themselves, they will miss out on meaningful academic growth, says Zahid Naz

Make academia’s ‘implicit rules’ explicit, universities urged

Survey of first-generation scholars finds many struggle with ‘unwritten rules’ of academic life

Funding cuts hamper business and community engagement efforts

Drops in the number of new spin-out companies and public events may show start of retrenchment in outward-facing activities

Risk of US isolationism as Canadian academics urged not to travel

Union tells scholars to avoid all but essential trips and academic conferences choose non-US locations amid ‘sea change’ in research collaboration

We must support research preserving culture, history and human dignity

Exeter’s self-funded translation of Ukrainian war poetry ensures it reaches a global audience and contributes to historical justice, says Svitlana Arbuzova

UNSW scraps trimester calendar after workload complaints

Three-term system ‘suited the time’, but post-pandemic conditions bring new priorities, says university

Can universities still diversify faculty hiring under Trump?

Tailoring teaching for disabled students ‘can benefit everyone’

As people from non-traditional backgrounds become the majority in Australian universities, a legal academic argues that efforts to accommodate them can help the old guard too

Room for foreign degrees in Singapore despite official distancing

Private providers needed to fills gaps for working adults even as government focuses on public sector

Scholars hope Harvard defiance spurs wider pushback against Trump

University’s refusal to concede to demands over protests and DEI despite risk of ‘grave consequences’ has led to renewed optimism among staff

Will Coventry University sink itself in quest for reinvention?

Institution known for innovation and risk-taking faces doubts over its future but is still planning new ways to do things differently

This is probably the worst time in history to lose faith in universities

The clever stimulation of popular resentment against the perceived elitism of higher education only leaves the masses to the mercy of oligarchs who have aced the populism game, says Saikat Majumdar

Afghans shut out of higher education need their own open university

An internationally supported online institution could give hope to the country’s young women, now confined to their homes, says an Afghan scholar

Nanyang: the story of one of the world’s fastest-rising universities

Rankings did not drive the Singaporean institution’s strategy, but gave the then underdog the data and visibility to enter a virtuous circle of success, explain Bertil Andersson and Tony Mayer

Australian opposition pledges money for rural health training

Medical training a bright spot for the sector, in an election campaign mostly focused elsewhere