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9 March

International students struggle to build ties with locals

8 March

Under-fire Cardiff v-c calls out ��fake news�� in epigenetics row

7 March

Emma Johnston: ߣߣ��Ƶn HE must resist and adapt to external shocks

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

10 March

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UK higher education unions seek ��ambitious�� 7 per cent pay rise

7 March

More than quarter of world��s top 200 universities led by women

Number of female university leaders reaches record high, with Switzerland seeing biggest growth

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Events

10 March - 12 March 2025

Wroclaw, Poland

Is authentic assessment leaving some students behind?

By Sue Sharpe and Jennifer Z Sun

New international student caps hurt Quebec universities

9 March

��Terrifying�� long-term threat to global research from US cuts

7 March

By Jessica Blake

6 March

By Kathryn Palmer

6 March

Manchester Met v-c Malcolm Press named next UUK president

7 March

Under-fire Cardiff v-c calls out ��fake news�� in epigenetics row

7 March

UK higher education unions seek ��ambitious�� 7 per cent pay rise

7 March

��Fundamental change�� needed at English regulator, Peck told

7 March

��Bleak future�� for Kerala universities as political spats rage on

7 March

Demographic decline hits PhD prospects as academic jobs dry up

6 March

Indonesia rules out tuition fee rises after student protests

3 March

��Double fraud��: end Indian academics�� fake patent scam, UK urged

By Jack Grove

3 March

Emma Johnston: ߣߣ��Ƶn HE must resist and adapt to external shocks

10 March

International students struggle to build ties with locals

8 March

Don��t ��muscle up�� ߣߣ��Ƶn regulator, governance inquiry told

7 March

Universities steamrolling the ��equity sector��, paper warns

5 March

News

New international student caps hurt Quebec universities

Provincial government also removes academics from expeditated immigration process, raising fears over recruitment

9 March

International students struggle to build ties with locals

Communing with long-term residents is vital to overseas learners�� well-being but can leave them feeling more isolated than ever

8 March

Under-fire Cardiff v-c calls out ��fake news�� in epigenetics row

Leader of Welsh institution, already under pressure over massive job cuts, claims words were ��grossly misinterpreted��

7 March

Manchester Met v-c Malcolm Press named next UUK president

7 March

��Terrifying�� long-term threat to global research from US cuts

7 March

UK higher education unions seek ��ambitious�� 7 per cent pay rise

7 March

��Fundamental change�� needed at English regulator, Peck told

7 March

Pause on US aid to Ukraine ��extremely negative�� for universities

7 March

Don��t ��muscle up�� ߣߣ��Ƶn regulator, governance inquiry told

7 March

��Bleak future�� for Kerala universities as political spats rage on

7 March

Overseas master��s enrolments down 17 per cent, universities say

6 March

Kingston axes philosophy centre in humanities department shutdown

By Jack Grove

6 March

Emma Johnston: ߣߣ��Ƶn HE must resist and adapt to external shocks

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

10 March

Senior lecturer in clinical anatomy prepares a remote learning session for her students from her office on the university campus in Hull, northern England on 5 March 2021. In response to the Covid-19 lockdown the university moved to online teaching.

Did the pandemic change higher education forever?

When Covid-19 forced the sudden closure of campuses, conference venues and national borders, many predicted that academia would emerge from the experience forever changed. But five years on from the first wave of lockdowns, how accurate has that proved to be? Juliette Rowsell reports

Catholic statue of Catherine of Sienna holding a crown of thorns, St. Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne, ߣߣ��Ƶ. With a mortarboard tassel added to illustrate the double act of being Catholic and being a university.

How Catholic should a Catholic university be?

Disagreements over the extent to which Catholic teaching should influence academic practice have caused ructions at the ߣߣ��Ƶn Catholic University. But where exactly should the line between academic freedom and spiritual doctrine be drawn in a church-owned university? John Ross reports

Opinion

By Mats Persson

Introducing the Cake-factor

Research assessment has made huge progress but measurement of community remains half-baked, say Mats Persson and Jan Ch. Karlsson

7 March

Sampled vivas are pivotal in combating AI cheating

AI is here to stay but universities must teach students to use it responsibly, say Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox, Advait Sarkar and Sandy Gould

An athlete holds up their medal, illustratiung TEF ratings

One-word university ratings are fool��s gold

Rather than designating England��s universities gold, silver or bronze the TEF should promote deeper understanding of teaching quality, says Steve Briggs

The crisis in UK higher education is a national security issue

By Katharine Wright

4 March

If Republicans really want to help their voters, they should boost HE

By John Austin

3 March

One would-be Romanian president is a plagiarist. But will voters care?

By Ararat Osipian

28 February

US universities must not obey Trump and Musk in advance

By Johann Neem

27 February

World policy

The demise of India��s journal whitelist highlights regulatory challenges

The recent arrest of accreditation council members only underlines that competence of regulation is as much of an issue as its degree, says Pushkar

Editor��s pick

University libraries must be ��access brokers��, not knowledge repositories

Subscribing to nearly everything published by journals is no longer feasible in these financially straitened times but librarians can provide creative workarounds to ensure journal access, says Liam Bullingham

Don��t lament the sunset of imperial language departments

Departments should refocus on brokering linguistic services to meet the needs of staff and students in a polyglot world, says Tomasz Kamusella

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Emma Johnston: ߣߣ��Ƶn HE must resist and adapt to external shocks

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

10 March

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

Neeli Bendapudi on being an outsider and a trailblazer, students as customers and nurturing the world��s largest alumni network

By Ellie Bothwell

5 March

Jane Norman, University of Nottingham vice-chancellor, with an aerial shot of the Jubilee campus in the background.

End of Nottingham��s expansive era leaves new v-c taking stock

Jane Norman eyes more focused approach for university after decades of rapid growth, with new financial paradigm forcing ��hard conversations��