Accelerated graduate study in Japan raises quality concerns

Fast-track integrated programmes intended to address skills needs and boost postgraduate enrolments should not compromise research and curriculum design, say experts

Students caught spying should face ‘severe sanctions’, says Ahmed

Threat to academic freedom from secret recordings of seminars being passed to state governments must be taken seriously, says Office for Students free speech lead

Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI

Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak

University of West London to open Sri Lanka branch campus

Institution latest to increase transnational presence by expanding long-running partnership with local provider

‘Big four becomes big 14’ in dominating international education

Anglophone destinations no longer rule the roost, but experts say composition and quality should matter more than volume

Colleges push back against drive to collect more admissions data

Low-quality and AI-generated papers ‘could overwhelm publishing’

Survey of more than 3,000 researchers by Cambridge University Press reveals widespread concerns over the rise of ChatGPT-assisted papers

Students who stay in home region ‘marginalised’ by policymakers

School-leavers incentivised to move away from local area to attend university, despite the benefits that staying put can bring, according to MillionPlus

NUS launches first-of-its-kind music PhD as creative sector grows

Dean hopes new model for postgraduate study in Asia will influence education in the region more broadly

‘Painful job losses likely’ as AI fills university admin roles

Institutions should retrain staff affected now rather than ‘sustain jobs which machines can do better and cheaper’, expert argues

Hate the compact? Start building a better case for academic freedom

The Trump administration is trying to extort universities to submit to its control. To defend the university against such overreach is to affirm a broad constitutional tradition that limits state...

Athena SWAN is a facilitator of genderwashing

Even successful applications lack specificity and ambition, ignoring universities’ own data about where problems and strengths lie, says Pat O’Connor

Use budget to increase fees and grants, ministers told

UUK calls on government to hit pause on fee levy plans amid fears chancellor will progress policy next month

Call funding review post-election, Welsh v-cs tell parties

Universities’ manifesto ahead of 2026 Senedd poll also wants independent commission on participation

Two-thirds of providers below OfS franchising thresholds

Regulator says universities should only enter partnerships when they are satisfied that teaching and support standards will be maintained