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Brussels threatens Italy over failure to end lettori dispute
European Commission warns of further legal action after Italian universities refuse to offer back pay to unjustly treated foreign lecturers
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AI makes university honour codes more necessary than ever
Evidence suggests that honesty pledges make cheating less pronounced than it otherwise would be, say Thomas Gift and Julie Norman
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Colleges quietly begin planning for end of affirmative action
US Supreme Court widely expected to rule against Harvard and UNC in landmark cases, leading many institutions to start the process for considering what happens next
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Ucas applicants to be shown apprenticeships alongside degrees
UK higher education admissions service moves to put vocational routes into careers on an ‘equal footing’ with traditional options
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Beijing’s call for foreign R&D investment ‘a signal’ to West
US is the ‘elephant in the room’ in a policy that seeks to attract overseas talent and money, says academic
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Nine out of 10 students get first or 2:1 at leading universities
Most students got a higher-class degree at every major institution in 2021-22, data show
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Which study destinations rely most on a few source countries?
Australia, New Zealand and Canada have some of the least diverse international student populations, data show
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Inside the post-ChatGPT scramble to create AI essay detectors
Edtech giants and plucky start-ups are vying to create potentially lucrative tools to combat the use of AI in assessments, but will they cause more problems than they solve?
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More fluid routes between academia and industry would boost innovation
Better alignment of pay and benefits, working cultures and expectations will clear the way for research to have impact, say nine Future Leaders fellows
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The website aiming to bring greater transparency to spin-outs
Analysis of the database suggests UK universities take greater equity in spin-outs than others in Europe
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NMITE seeks to tempt dissatisfied students by paying housing costs
Recently launched provider spends big in attempt to drive ‘exponential growth’ in student numbers
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The UK cannot afford to cut the M from STEM
Rishi Sunak's plan for mathematics to age 18 would come too late to save many university departments, says Ulrike Tillmann
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German university set to drop Kaiser name after review
Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster set to become the University of Münster
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Top Chinese graduate schools ‘pull up drawbridge on test takers’
Leading institutions switching from exams to interviews for admission, but students from many universities are excluded from this route