Australian vice-chancellors have forfeited public trust
Enormous surpluses underline the extent to which universities prioritise their own welfare over that of future graduates, says Hannah Forsyth
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Nature and University of California expand open-access pact
California continues trailblazing push with major publishers but sees fundamental cost problem still unresolved
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Biden sets new limits on for-profit colleges
Administration nears completion of regulatory overhaul with new rules on student aid, non-profit conversions and prison recruiting
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Most summer school students ‘already want to go to university’
Commonly used widening participation initiative not targeting those who would benefit most from such schemes, study finds
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Rosa Freedman: REF impact rules ‘unfair on researchers’
Human rights expert claims ‘inaccurate’ impact submission written on her work by old employer highlights why funding rules should change
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US suspends Fulbright-Hays foreign-language penalty
Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees – for now – that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery
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Short-sighted measures of graduate success are good for no one
Graduate careers are long and pay varies by region – so why measure course value on graduate salaries 15 months in, asks Neal Juster
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English regulator to push ahead with numerical ‘quality’ measures
OfS to introduce new quality condition, including proportion of graduates securing ‘managerial or professional employment’, in October
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Australian universities ‘lose social licence’ in overseas cash push
Swinburne v-c lambasts sector for following English model, but Monash head puts international education on par with key resource exports
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Paris-Saclay president aims for global profile
After predecessor exits to become higher education minister, Estelle Iacona is tasked with completing integration of ambitious, elite amalgam
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Talking leadership 36: Joël Mesot on having a fruitful dialogue with society
ETH Zurich president discusses building public trust in science, supporting apprenticeship schemes and a downside of Einstein’s legacy
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Regional universities hit hardest as Danish applications drop 11 per cent
‘Generation lockdown’ wanting a break from the books blamed for steep decrease as high employment rate lures some away from study
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Canada’s universities tackle false claims of Indigenous identities
Difficulties defining who has indigenous heritage complicates efforts to stop some profiting from made-up affiliations
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The best scholarship is political but with no ideological stamp
The idea that revisionism is something to be ashamed of harks back to a mythical golden age of classics, canons and objective truth, says Harvey Graff
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USS posts ‘robust’ accounts but members lose faith over cuts
Only 17 per cent of those enrolled in UK’s largest higher education pension scheme reported positive relationship after changes to retirement benefits