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Doctorates more professionalised, candidate status still unclear

Doctoral schools, quality assurance and supervision guidelines all on the rise but question of staff or student status still not resolved, survey finds 

International students hit with travel ban, new Harvard order

Even in the poorest nations, universities play a vital role in the SDGs

Conflict, the climate crisis and poor infrastructure and funding mean pursuing the SDGs is a major challenge for South Sudan. But universities are still playing a positive role, especially when it...

UK-Israeli research ties questioned amid Gaza aid blockade

With EU reviewing Israel’s Horizon Europe participation, some believe research boycott should form part of Keir Starmer’s potential ‘targeted sanctions’

Top Sydney universities one-third funded by Chinese students

As international education crackdown continues, new figures reveal scale of potential impact on some institutions’ finances

Despite population decline, Korea’s Kyung Hee aims for the SKY

Leading private university pivots to graduate and international students as entire sector threatened by low birth rate

Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture

A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui

New Welsh regulator appoints first permanent chief executive

Medr’s chief operating officer to step up at time of financial hardship for Welsh sector

No rerun of Teaching Excellence Framework in 2027, OfS indicates

Regulator exploring how to integrate exercise into wider quality assessments

Kendall Square also shows ‘what not to do’, says Oxford v-c

Fairness, social justice and town planning must be part of template for innovation-led growth in UK university cities, according to Irene Tracey

Graduate employment gap at record level in under-fire statistics

Falling employment among those who don’t have degrees drives up jobs gap but annual figures to be stopped amid questions over their quality

AI is improving our rankings, but human expertise will remain vital

Large language models are becoming a powerful complement to human judgement in the validation process for our sustainability-focused rankings, says Victor Melatti 

Impact Rankings 2025: methodology

The ����Vlog Impact Rankings measure global universities’ success in delivering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we explain how we arrive at the results for the...

Could generative AI improve the REF?

The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole...

Outward-facing Estonian universities ‘held back by Russia border’

Internationalisation and increased research funding could help country replicate success in primary education but neighbour’s long-running war is leaving its mark, says minister