Top earners increase at Russell Group universities despite cuts
About 9,400 staff paid at least £100,000 a year across research-intensive institutions, analysis of financial accounts shows
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Bangladeshi scholars fear loss of new freedoms after election
Period of increased openness following student-led uprising could soon descend back into political polarisation following BJP landslide victory, academics say
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‘Quantity, not quality’ of PhD supervisions key to promotion
UK-wide survey of university promotion policies reveals emphasis on PhD recruitment and completions, rather than the need for high-quality support
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Australian universities’ finances increasingly ‘on thin ice’
Near-decade of funding instability undermining sector’s capacity to deliver for the nation, representative body claims
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Nobel laureate to head German private university
Konstantin Novoselov to lead Constructor University in Bremen
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Kazakhstan overhauls university admission tests
Partnership with ETS will replace 20-year-old traditional entry exam with modular, skills-based assessment as part of bid to modernise national system
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Cambridge scraps plans to axe ‘unsustainable’ veterinary courses
University to continue admitting students and replace leadership after financial and quality concerns threatened survival of veterinary degrees
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Students ‘yearn to be taught how to have difficult conversations’
Universities ‘should be the gathering place where the tribes come together’ in a fraying democracy, Canberra conference hears
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Lab research is ‘individual’, but running the show means teamwork
Lauded bench scientist-turned-administrator Anne Kelso reflects on gender balance, ‘keeping it real’ and why she left her ‘happy place in the lab’
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‘He was surrounded by smart people’: academics in Epstein files
Times Higher Education’s analysis of DOJ files reveals new links between scholars and Epstein after he was already a known sex offender
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Generative AI is not just a tool for learning. It shapes how students think
Framing this technology as a helpful ‘tool’ disguises how much it guides every element of critical thinking that academics seek to cultivate, says James Garvey
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Whitehall cuts ‘undermining’ international education expansion
Smaller universities expected to be hardest hit by job losses in bodies supporting overseas growth
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Boost funding for joint HE-FE courses, ministers told
Partnerships between the higher and further education sectors currently dogged by power imbalances, critics say
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UCL axes ‘utopian’ Institute of Advanced Studies
Interdisciplinary research hub focused on arts and humanities will shut in July amid financial sustainability issues
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Fresh protests rock Iranian campuses after deadly crackdown
Students returning for a new semester reignite demonstrations and clash with pro-government groups, weeks after thousands killed or detained by regime