Advisers quit over ‘deeply disappointing’ Greek research policy
Distinguished scientists who left Greece’s National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation criticise fragmented oversight and excess bureaucracy
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The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line
Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected...
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Making students write by hand would improve their learning
There is something about handwriting that enhances the creative flow essential for academic study and scholarly activity, says Rich Smith
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UK urged to back creative technologies catapult
Better collaboration needed between industry and universities to develop the sector, says report
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Thousands call for Coventry v-c to lose government role
A union has warned that John Latham’s position is ‘incompatible’ with his responsibilities at the crisis-hit institution
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Stand-in v-c denies moonlighting with restructure consultancy
Fortnightly leave pass to ‘provide leadership’ to consultants helped Wollongong’s interim boss ‘stay in touch with colleagues’
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Higher education needs a mechanism to challenge student accommodations
I don’t begrudge granting help to students who need it, but we must also have guard rails to deny it to those who don’t, says Nikolay Kukushkin
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What legacy does Yale-NUS College leave in Singapore?
Long caught up in debates about academic freedom and internationalisation, liberal arts may not survive in city state beyond closure of pioneering partnership
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Universities ‘capitulated’ on transgender medicine, scholars say
Two dozen academics join ‘mainstream’ call for a health check on youth gender treatment
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Cardiff set to cut student enrolment and increase class sizes
Financial benefits of increasing domestic recruitment ‘now negligible’, according to leaked document
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Closing Department of Education is Trump’s ‘shock and awe’
Even if the department lives to fight another day, putting it under threat will have helped Republicans to ‘flood the zone’ and disorientate opponents, academics say
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‘Recommit’ to QR research funding, Imperial president urges UK
Hugh Brady warns 16 per cent fall in real-terms value of recurrent grant funding ‘threatens the very foundations of British science’
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UEA staff vote to strike over job cuts, Sheffield set to follow
Over 80 per cent of union members vote for strike action after successive years or job cuts at University of East Anglia
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‘No major reform’ of English higher education funding, says Smith
Skills minister says upcoming White Paper will seek to address ‘fragmentation’ between further and higher education