US judge backs $6 billion in student debt waivers
Biden-backed settlement benefits 200,000 students from 153 institutions, largely in the for-profit sector, with no expectation taxpayers will be reimbursed for the losses
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US midterms: hope for reform as student voters make voices heard
High turnout among college-aged voters helps Democrats, but renewed Republican control of House may limit their payback on affordability and equity
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Indian students continue hunger strike in face of expulsions
Ongoing faceoff with administrators, which began with demand to raise stipends, leaves two students in hospital
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Universities step in to cover student bills with one-off payments
Institutions having to make more direct interventions as cost-of-living crisis bites with little sign of help from Westminster
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The moral outrage about plagiarism belies our educative failure
The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists’ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about, says Sioux McKenna
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THE Awards 2022: winners announced
Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured at ‘Oscars of higher education’
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Myanmar frees jailed Australian academic Sean Turnell
Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges
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UK universities ‘systematically underpaying staff for years’
Sector leaders acknowledge long-term problems with pay and say now is the time to resolve them after union promises strikes
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THE Awards 2022: winners booklet digital edition
Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured among 20 categories covering the full range of university activities
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Hunt recommits to UK spending £20 billion on research by 2024
Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors
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UK offshore enrolment now over half-million mark
UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year
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World ‘going backwards’ on equal access to higher education
Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met
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Taliban’s call for academics to return met with scepticism
Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia
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Women outnumber men on UK PhDs for first time
Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers
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The US’ new open access mandate must not line the pockets of grifters
Greater efforts need to be made to distinguish predatory journals from those that at least aspire to scholarly standards, says Harvey Graff