How Birkbeck was squeezed by years of neglect for adult education
London’s revered ‘night university’ enters bicentenary year mired in financial crisis
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Ucea reveals pay offer as decision looms on UCU strikes strategy
Union’s higher education committee meets to finalise next steps in campaign after messy debate
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Leading universities cut undergraduate recruitment by a quarter
Data lay bare how Russell Group institutions have hit the brakes after years of expansion, as post-92s make up ground
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Do Iranian scholars actually want academic freedom?
Restrictions are partly due to a stilted academic culture in which criticism is uncomfortable, says Roohola Ramezani
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‘Disappointing’ maintenance loan uplift a ‘real-terms cut’
Westminster government criticised by sector over 2.8 per cent uplift as concern mounts over impact of cost-of-living crisis on students
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Most Hungarian universities blocked from signing new EU grants
Ban could prompt brain drain, warn experts, while university foundations are likely to be restocked with loyalists
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UK Horizon alternative ‘aims to make Brussels pick up the phone’
George Freeman ‘still pushing’ and ‘still hopeful’ on association, but thinks forthcoming plan for UK global science role could be catalyst
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Co-create policies to tackle student drug use, universities told
Ensuring students are involved in interventions will help tackle stigma and end ‘culture of silence’, experts say
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Study debunks idea that Covid trials cut clinical corners
Covid-19 trials were as well designed, if not better designed, than other, similar medical experiments, finds Oxford study
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Education departments ‘less diverse’ than rest of UK sector
BERA report indicates education departments tend to be older and more white, with men in most senior positions
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Rice, with path-breaking leader, eyes new directions
Haitian-born DesRoches aims to grow enrolment and diversity, boost research and create new global footprint
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Higher education should be wary of promising prosperity
Education helps a person escape poverty. It doesn’t directly, in the short run, combat poverty. That requires a wider coalition, says Jonathan Gyurko
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Pay talks impasse continues as unions await employers’ offer
Lack of agreement on whether industrial action should continue while talks are in progress hampers chances of resolving dispute
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Let Confucius Institutes on US campuses with conditions – review
Expert panel requested by Congress suggests conditions under which universities could be exempted from its general ban on partnerships with Chinese government-backed educational programme