US enrolment picks up but first-year numbers drop
Nation’s campuses see overall undergraduate enrolment gain for first time since Covid, only to lose new four-year entrants
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Average student rents now eat up all of maintenance loan – survey
Average rents across UK up 14.6 per cent in just two years, study of 10 cities finds, with Bristol, Exeter and Nottingham most expensive
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Israeli academics look abroad as they brace for long haul
With funding and productivity likely to dip as war takes priority, Israeli universities say preserving international links will be vital
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Universities must ‘break norms’ to combat cheating
A convincing veneer of academic integrity can help bring about the real thing, finds literature review
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Early Ucas applications fall for second successive year
Experts say early indications show demand for higher education remains subdued, but many would have been ‘fearing worse’
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Interview with Kabir Sheikh
Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics
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Create PhD databases to flush out fraudsters, universities told
Lack of publicly available data on doctoral degree holders is allowing people to add fake credentials to their resumés, says research fraud expert
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Investigating serious abuses must be taken out of universities’ hands
Reporting misconduct to an external ombudsman would circumvent managers’ tendency to cover up, says Wyn Evans
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Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about...
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Hong Kong doubles limit on non-local undergraduates
Academics welcome the move, but some are concerned over displacement of island’s students from its top institutions
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Is the Covid generation ready for college?
With students who entered high school during the pandemic starting to apply for places, admissions officers feel ill equipped to judge their readiness
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Australia urged to tweak visas so international students stay
Removing ‘speed bumps’ and abolishing the ‘bamboo ceiling’ would help to overcome Australia’s ‘self-inflicted brain drain’, forum hears
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Focus on early-stage research urged for Horizon successor
With 10th framework programme likely to live alongside plethora of sector-specific spending pots, EU countries must decide if it should do a bit of everything or go back to basics
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Lyrical liar: inside Sweden’s Macchiarini-inspired opera
The artistic team behind the unsettling production explain why they wanted to explore the psychology of the country’s biggest biomedical research scandal
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Stop crediting us when we didn’t fund you, NIH tells researchers
Leading supplier of basic research funding says scientists complicate its accountability systems by routinely attributing publications to it