Poorly advised A-level picks ‘lock students into wrong degrees’
School pupils need better information on their post-16 options to avoid the risk of narrowing their university and career choices, says Hepi report
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Universities pay thousands in compensation to harassment victims
OIA says sexual misconduct investigations too often marred by delays and poor communication
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Record number of UK 18-year-olds apply to university
Ucas figures show that a record proportion of students applied to higher-tariff institutions
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London participation rates tipped to become ‘increasingly uneven’
Capital comfortably outperforms rest of England on higher education access, but progress is stalling and there are significant intra-regional differences, warns report
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Can UK universities find the high road to economic growth?
The long-mooted Oxford-Cambridge corridor is one avenue chancellor Rachel Reeves intends to pursue in search of a way out of the economic doldrums. But where does her focus on existing strengths...
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Only a nationwide strike can stem the carnage in UK higher education
Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model, says Rhiannon Lockley
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Brunel staff are latest to vote for strike action over job cuts
Brunel joins staff members at East Anglia, Newcastle and Dundee to vote for strike action in the past week
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‘Nothing off the table’ says Edinburgh head on school closures
Head of Scotland’s biggest university warns it may need to shutter departments and degree courses to close ‘urgent’ financial gap
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Budget cuts ‘unprecedented setback for Swiss science’
Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francsÂ
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Reliance on overseas student revenues ‘skews Australian research’
Failure to improve translation of ‘laudable’ research output will see country ‘slide into mediocrity’, reviewers warn
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Where do UK PhD graduates go? Careers observatory may hold answer
Collating information from LinkedIn, ORCID profiles, Hesa and HMRC could solve data black hole over PhD careers, says research director
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Hong Kong universities to dip into reserves as budget cuts loom
Cuts seen as inevitable but academics urge restraint in upcoming budget
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Thousands of UK academics still on ‘unjust’ zero-hours contracts
Amid financial pressures, experts warn that the practice is likely to continue for some time
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Antisemitic incidents in higher education drop, but stay high
Anti-Jewish hatred more likely to be ‘overtly related’ to criticism of Israel on campuses compared with in wider society, says report
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Autonomy surrendered in ‘enshittification’ of academia – Thrift
Former Warwick v-c warns ‘industrialisation’ of universities risks turning academics into ‘drones’, and says fellow leaders have done little to help