UCU marking boycott to go ahead after members reject offer
Academics to refuse to assess students’ work for an indefinite period, posing threat to this year’s graduations
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Harvard’s Bacow urges pushback against political threats
Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of Ron DeSantis
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Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings: a new framework
African rankings methodology looks beyond traditional research-focused metrics on teaching and research to include societal impact, writes Phil Baty
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Merge tertiary education funding models, Australian review told
Single system for accessing skills training and higher education would remove longstanding barriers between the two, lobby group claims
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Talking leadership: Annika Östman Wernerson on rebuilding trust
The rector of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute takes charge of the world-leading medical school after the disruptions of a pandemic and an ethics scandal
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Problems with bank checks drive student visa refusals
Applicants from countries without differentiation agreements with the UK face battle to show they can support their studies financially
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Big university donors are distorting research agendas
Kenneth Griffin’s $300 million donation to Harvard is unusual in not being tied to pet ideological causes, says Naomi Oreskes Â
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Pakistani universities suspend operations amid soaring inflation
Huge hike in costs plunges institutions into dire situation as academics call on government to urgently raise higher education spending
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Liberal arts education is not a Western concept
Ancient India and China were the first civilisations to educate young people to become whole individuals, says Kyaw Moe Tun
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Open access is not enough. We need open equity
Publishers, libraries and funders must do what they can to ensure that no one is priced out of open-access publishing, says Mandy Hill
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Kent students condemn ‘callous’ Brussels campus closure
UK’s ‘European university’ winds down operations at satellite site, blaming rising costs and recruitment challenges
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Cambridge University Press drops fees for low-income countries
Publishing giant announces list of more than 100 nations where open access charges will not apply
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Biden visit caps Ulster University’s post-Troubles transformation
Vice-chancellor hails US President's speech as giving the institution ‘fantastic prominence’ worldwide
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Journal blacklists are a useful way to promote academic integrity
We can’t discourage scientific opportunism without providing information about which publishers to avoid, says Natalia Letki
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China block on foreign access to journal portal ‘damages knowledge’
Further security service-directed restrictions could deal ‘serious blow’ to West’s China studies and isolate Chinese academics