UK’s university investment zones echo US, but leave questions
Chancellor heralds switch of investment zone focus to higher education institutions in ‘left-behind areas’
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Universities need more funding to go further on pay, says Ucea
Speaking on eve of strikes, new chair George Boyne says affordability is ‘the big constrictor’
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Academics ‘embedded’ in UK parliament to share research insights
Move seen as a way of strengthening links between academia and policymakers to ensure parliamentarians have access to latest scholarship
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India’s new university entrance exam will not fix capacity or fairness
What the country really needs is a common school and evaluation system that compensates for background inequalities, says Gowhar Rashid Ganie
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Equal Pay Day 2022: what is the gender pay gap at my university?
Analysis reveals which UK universities have the widest gender pay gaps
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After 20 years of low pay and neglect, I’ve quit academia to make it better
Building a publishing platform that allows scholars to earn from sales of their papers has put all Pooja Sawrikar’s rage to good use
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Germany’s female professors fund targets smaller universities
Fourth edition of ‘very effective’ programme will look more closely at recruitment processes and science disciplines
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European university alliances need more sustainable funding
Success notwithstanding, managing different shorter-term funding streams while working towards a single long-term vision is not ideal, says Olga Wessels
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Fight ‘bonfire of the humanities’, urges Mary Beard
Classicist hopes her retirement will allow more of the ‘precariat’ to get a foot on the academic career ladder
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Regulator names subjects facing student outcomes scrutiny
English regulator focuses on law, business and computing courses not meeting thresholds for continuation, completion and progression
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US judge backs $6 billion in student debt waivers
Biden-backed settlement benefits 200,000 students from 153 institutions, largely in the for-profit sector, with no expectation taxpayers will be reimbursed for the losses
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US midterms: hope for reform as student voters make voices heard
High turnout among college-aged voters helps Democrats, but renewed Republican control of House may limit their payback on affordability and equity
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Indian students continue hunger strike in face of expulsions
Ongoing faceoff with administrators, which began with demand to raise stipends, leaves two students in hospital
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Universities step in to cover student bills with one-off payments
Institutions having to make more direct interventions as cost-of-living crisis bites with little sign of help from Westminster
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The moral outrage about plagiarism belies our educative failure
The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists’ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about, says Sioux McKenna