English regulator launches review of blended learning standards
Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education
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Are the UK’s former polytechnics the solution to levelling up?
Three decades after the abolition of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, some commentators still lament the supposed loss of locally focused vocational education. But even as the...
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Should I be worried about where my cybersecurity students will end up?
Teaching students to hack is necessary to show them how to defend against it – but we need to do more to instil ethics, says Andy Farnell Â
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17 March 2022 digital edition
Levelling up: thirty years on, has the post-92s’ time come?
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Introducing our new World University Rankings advisory board
We have appointed nine board members across four continents to improve transparency and help us further develop the league table, says Duncan Ross
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Japan University Rankings 2022: methodology
Our Japan rankings are constructed on four pillars that demonstrate the broad strength of a university
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Pandemic ‘made some students keener to study abroad’
Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests
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Ethnic minority experts excluded from peer review in UK, MPs told
Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings
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Digital Universities UK: preserve best bits as academia moves online, urges Grayling
Philosopher A. C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy
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Stop ‘micromanaging’ researchers, urges Australian award winner
Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit
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Member states poised to water down plans for European degree
Plans for a legal statute to smooth cross-border working were embraced by those struggling with national reforms, but most EU governments are getting cold feet
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Support staff numbers cut at half of UK universities
Some institutions lost about a tenth of their non-academic workforce in main year of pandemic
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Cyber warfare becomes part of curriculum for Ukrainian students
Informatics faculty turns its hand to creating tools to help civilians and hamper Russian attacks
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In need of a little tea and sympathy? Try your campus security team
Guards are adept at taking escalating student consumerism in their stride. Coffee may also be served, says George BassÂ
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More signs of domestic demand shrinking in Australia
Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students