Essex unions declare ‘no confidence’ in v-c over job cuts
University apologises after some staff wrongly told they were at risk of redundancy but insists overall process has been ‘fair’
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Universities must ‘speak up more about value of humanities’
EU focus on fields most closely linked to economic gains a ‘growing threat’ to other disciplines, leaders fear
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Asia University Rankings 2026: methodology
Our methodology uses data on all aspects of Asian universities’ core missionsÂ
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Tasmania green-lights controversial university land sale
Proposal for riverside Hobart campus to proceed in pared-back form after sell-off of existing base agreed
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Sack ANU council, union says, after another deficit overestimate
ANU’s ‘academic performance remains strong’, university insists, amid call for governing body spill over overstated financial crisis
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Asian and African students flock to China for STEM degrees
China’s flagship Belt and Road initiative continues to pay off as students from priority regions take up degree programmes, but post-pandemic recovery still ongoing
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Science too driven by political causes, third of UK voters fear
Scientific researchers urged to ‘reach beyond own circles’ after polling shows their views skew more to the left
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Whistleblower has ‘no confidence’ in ombudsman after ANU probe
Former head of music school says decision not to revisit his complaints shows system ‘worse than useless’
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The British lawyer using US courts to fight research fraud
After winning a spectacular legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells Jack Grove about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why...
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South Korea’s universities can’t drive its AI transition without better policy
Political ambition is not enough. Stable funding, coherent regulation and realistic institutional differentiation are also vital, says Kyuseok Kim
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Reinstate weekend maintenance loans for now at least, say v-cs
Universities UK calls for funding to be restored until solution to row is found, as 13,000-signature petition presented to Department for Education