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‘Genie out the bottle’ on franchising despite new rules
Analysis shows that one provider has increased its number of subcontracted students by 500 per cent
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Enhanced scrutiny of foreign donations a ‘vote winner’ for Trump
White House plans to launch new ‘state-of-the-art’ foreign funding reporting portal expected to increase scrutiny of universities
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Universities must respond to students’ emotional reliance on AI
If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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‘Half in, half out’ approach to REF 2029 outputs ‘not enough’
Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books
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Susan Lapworth to leave the Office for Students
Chief executive becomes latest to depart English regulator after nearly four years in charge
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Adequate staffing for every course in new oversight ‘blueprint’
Funding must be part of the conversation, crossbench senators warn, as final report of Australian governance inquiry published
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Academics far more likely to reply to elite university students
Researchers sent emails to authors of recently published papers to test how much prestige matters in access to academic resources
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Overpayments persist despite Australian student debt overhaul
Charging interest on loans already repaid would be illegal in other sectors, senator highlights
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Last-minute REF changes ‘show how far things drifted off course’
Decision to row back reforms demonstrates difficulties of using process to engineer social change, critics say, with little clarity over how newly revised ‘people’ section will work
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Student governors sidelined despite expanding role, report warns
Efforts to ensure student voices are heard on university boards often ‘tokenistic’, with ‘invisible barriers’ placed on participation
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Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of...
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The UK’s copyright laws will hobble its AI ambitions
Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White
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Universities ‘overthinking’ competition laws, says OfS chair
Edward Peck insinuates risks of breaching rules when collaborating across sector aren’t as high as widely perceived