UK universities’ links to ‘repressive’ mega-campus condemned Institutions advising on Armenia’s merger plans should consider how ‘academic city’ will make student protest impossible, warns Harvard professor Jack Grove 4月 29日
Three providers fail to rectify complaints as compensation soars Amount paid out to English and Welsh students more than doubles in a year, driven by cases involving ‘serious disruption’ and ‘misleading information’ Juliette Rowsell 4月 29日
Let’s embrace the REF’s radical redefinition of academic excellence We finally have a mechanism to overthrow the UK’s neo-feudal system of academic gatekeeping, say Krzysztof Nawratek and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran Krzysztof Nawratek 4月 29日
Student loans for franchised degrees worth nearly ?2 billion Unregistered providers account for more than half of franchised tuition fee money claimed in past three years, new figures show Helen Packer 4月 28日
Rise in university-business collaboration ‘driven by elite few’ More than 60 per cent increase in income over past two decades masks ‘stagnation’ in collaboration below high-performing institutions, report finds Tom Williams 4月 28日
Elite universities admit fewer local students as intakes grow Students recruited from surrounding areas outnumbered by international applicants at 22 institutions Patrick Jack 4月 28日
UK’s global research strengths ‘threatened’ by QR cuts Block grant funding model found to hand country edge over other research systems, but only if value of funding isn’t further eroded Tom Williams 4月 28日
Serbia appoints ‘harmful’ new education minister amid protests Academic who has been a vocal critic of long-running student blockades joins government, sparking further demonstrations Emily Dixon 4月 27日
University trans policies ‘unlawful’ after Supreme Court ruling Guidance on facilities, accommodation and equality monitoring may need to be redrawn after landmark judgment, gender-critical scholars insist Jack Grove 4月 26日
Dundee may need further government support, ministers admit Deputy first minister chairing ministerial group to consider fresh help for university, amid continuing doubts over its viability Chris Havergal 4月 25日
Further job cuts not ruled out as 350 staff leave Edinburgh University cuts ?18 million from its pay bill with voluntary severance scheme, but remains some way short of its target for cost reductions Juliette Rowsell 4月 25日
Does it matter who the next Cambridge chancellor is? After the furore of Oxford’s election, no obvious frontrunner has emerged to take the high-profile role at Cambridge. Some say the institution needs a politically engaged figurehead, others want someone who can sort out internal fractures Jack Grove 4月 25日
