World University Rankings 2025: Australia stands on precipice
Half of sector goes backwards in this year’s table, as international student caps threaten more damage
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The Freshers’ Week drink tampering spike is not only security’s problem
Victims may feel more comfortable disclosing incidents to supervisors than to the killjoys who shut down their 4am corridor parties, says George Bass
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For greater innovation, universities should try radical collaboration
Partnerships with the public and private sectors can be slow-going or episodic. Urgent challenges demand a step change, says?Daniel Diermeier
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Graphene will ‘win another Nobel or two’, says Andre Geim
University of Manchester physicist hits out at critics who claim Nobel-winning discovery has not yet delivered
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Leaders hit by funding crises wary of ‘talking down’ universities
British and Canadian vice-chancellors warn their financial models have never faced greater threats, but do not want to further deter international students
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Visa issues make US ‘no-go zone’ for short student trips
Two-year waits for visa interviews have made it impossible to organise?visits to America, says University of Ghana dean
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Scientists who laid machine learning groundwork win physics Nobel
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield?share prize for ‘foundational discoveries and inventions’
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Guidelines on AI use in research needed to avert ‘race to bottom’
Newcastle vice-chancellor says shared approach needed to prevent ‘bad practices’
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Chegg accused of breaching Australia’s anti-cheating law
US-based education support site taken to court by regulator, in first test of nascent legislation
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How Johns Hopkins built a team of star grant winners
‘SWAT team’ of finance experts and science writers helps university secure more federal research funds than any other US institution, says its vice-provost for research
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Scrap REF and allocate funds based on external grants – thinktank
Abandoning?‘bureaucratic’ exercise now would save universities ?430 million, according to UK Day One
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University attacks in democracies ‘embolden illiberal regimes’
Increasing trend for policies that attempt to undermine or overhaul higher education in US and Europe being exported worldwide, Scholars at?Risk warns
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University keeps details of record v-c payout under wraps
Releasing details of Paddy Nixon’s final-year earnings of $A1.8?million would be ‘contrary to the public interest’, Canberra insists
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Switzerland ‘losing attractiveness’ as government limits spending
Funders and prestigious universities ‘cannot compete’ as?budgets?stand still or go backwards
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Call for more focused research ‘risks fostering academic elitism’
Experts fear ‘high-risk strategy’ as universities urged to double down on existing strengths and retrench from other areas