Australian opposition condemns ‘turgid and bureaucratic’ Atec
Government faces horse-trading in the Senate, as shadow minister flags outright rejection of bill to establish commission
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Nicola Sturgeon: devolved tax system harming universities
Former first minister advocates for progressive taxes as way of funding higher education as debates ramp up over who should pay for university
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Demand from Chinese students declines Down Under
Drop in visa applications reflects the social and economic factors affecting the behaviour of the world’s most globally mobile students, analysts say
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TEF should ‘penalise universities for failing on racial equity’
Report flags how seven institutions that have achieved a coveted gold rating have black awarding gaps exceeding 25 percentage points
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‘Worrying’ number of unverified English tests accepted in UK
‘Flexibility’ on testing in UK system ‘may worry government’ after review finds large variety of methods used to examine language skills
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Will Argentina’s chainsaw massacre of science spark a chain reaction?
Argentina’s emboldened president Javier Milei declared in Davos that ‘the rebirth of the ideas of liberty’ in the Americas was spreading globally. With Chilean voters taking a similarly hard-right...
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A university judged on graduate salaries is a dog wagged by its tail
We must better explain to school-leavers the intellectual, technical, creative and social benefits of higher education, says Brooke Storer-Church
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Jo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’
Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after alleging incumbent broke rules by using internal resources – claims strongly denied by union
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New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’
Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study
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UWL fined £150,000 by Ofqual over ‘serious rule breaches’
Regulator finds university failed to ‘exercise proper control’ of one of its external assessment centres
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Kent and Greenwich hail ‘key milestone’ as merger terms inked
Greenwich to change name to London and South East University Group before Kent joins as new ‘superuniversity’ takes shape
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Universities commissioner needed ‘to oversee mergers and cuts’
Call for government to create new position mirrored on role that already exists in further education, to help steer sector while avoiding excessive regulation
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Research reforms ‘bigger than one budget’, lobbyists warn
Recommendations from strategic R&D review still unknown, but Australian representative groups want them funded anyway
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Can new universities save left-behind towns and cities?
Fresh models of university outposts emerging in regions without access to higher education as financial crisis sees shuttering of traditional campuses