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Demand for MBAs declining amid visa and cost concerns

New survey finds students increasingly tempted to stay at home as quality of global business schools rises

Russell Group to train 26,000 more healthcare students by 2030

Research-intensive universities also pledge to remove barriers to medical careers as part of bid to support strained NHS 

Australia fast-tracks talks on Horizon Europe association

Associating before 2027 would put country in the ‘box seat’ to access and influence massive research scheme’s next iteration

Faculty left out of Virginia’s collective bargaining expansion

Third of UK university students ‘from wealthiest backgrounds’

Proportion of undergraduates from families of doctors, lawyers and engineers grows in comparison with other socio-economic groups

Graduates from deprived backgrounds ‘earn less with same degree’

Degree-holders who grew up in poverty paid thousands of pounds less than peers despite similar qualifications, finds Resolution Foundation

China hikes research spending as self-reliance remains priority

Long-term investment plans suggest superpower’s economic development becoming ‘subservient’ to technological progress

Viral disinformation about London safety ‘damaging universities’

Coordinated social media campaigns portraying capital city as unsafe pose problems for institutions trying to attract students

Faculty are right that AI output is mediocre. They’re wrong about why

If AI amplifies what you bring to it, the liberal arts mission of developing critical thinkers becomes not nostalgia but practical necessity, says Nicholas Creel

Arif Ahmed urges university leaders to stay ‘politically neutral’

Political statements by management may appear to be viewpoint of institution, warns university free speech tsar

Senate committee to probe ‘failed promise’ of higher education

University degrees no match for bots that sift applications as well as stealing graduates’ jobs, rebel senator says

Students want to ‘take back Bard’ from college president

Four-day week university hails results but scepticism remains

Sunderland’s London campus trial extended after ‘overwhelming’ support but take-up of idea remains low in sector battling deficits and job losses

‘Quality has to catch up with quantity’ in China’s HE expansion

Country’s ambition to become world’s leading higher education sector by 2035 will only be achieved if employment, inequality and governance concerns addressed, says new book