Poor students ‘will have to pay more for degrees’ as demand grows
Four in five tertiary education students globally to be in developing world by 2040, World Bank research predicts
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Impact Rankings 2025 digital edition
Universities’ work to align with and promote the SDGs benefits not only their immediate environs but the future of the planet. The Impact Rankings reflect those institutions striving to meet the goals
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Impact Rankings 2025: keeping the light burning
These rankings celebrate universities’ impact – but also hold institutions to account, highlighting where the sector is falling short
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Ensure universities not ‘cast aside’ in AI development, v-c urges
AI expert Tshilidzi Marwala calls for closer collaboration between universities and companies and rebalancing of AI power divide away from US and China
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OfS register reforms ‘being finalised’ ahead of August reopening
Regulator to reopen to new applications after heavily criticised eight-month pause
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Impact Rankings 2025: results announced
Malaysia and South Korea are making the most rapid advances in tables showing best universities for sustainability, writes Patrick Jack
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Muslim women ‘face bias’ in universities globally
Turkish academic says women who ‘share their core values visibly’ face ‘invisible barriers’, as she recounts experience of studying in both Istanbul and London
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Impact Rankings 2025: Australia claims top billing
Universities Down Under punch above their weight in global assessment of sustainable development efforts
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De Montfort University in legal dispute over axed Dubai campus
Ex-partner demands reimbursement for £42 million investment in now-defunct branch campus
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AI’s hyperbole ‘making journal abstracts harder to read’
Uptick in ‘unprecedented’, ‘exceptional’ and other grandiose terms within scientific papers can be traced to launch of ChatGPT, say scholars
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Australian research is steaming ahead – but we can do even better
The new Adelaide University will combine goal-oriented basic and applied research in search of greater impact, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd
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New Zealand universities see record income from overseas students
Foreign student numbers rebound despite fee increases as other anglophone countries impose immigration restrictions
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Show ‘moral courage’ to overcome ‘truth crisis’, v-c urges
Dawn Freshwater says universities must reclaim social licence to operate to help push for more sustainable planet
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Ministers ‘have a role in research consolidation’, says UKRI boss
Top-down approach may be needed to coordinate university research as funding cuts bite, departing science chief tells MPsÂ
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Universities must help ‘reset standards of honesty’
Climate expert Mike Berners-Lee says major global crises can only be tackled by return to simple values of truth and respect