The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is on track to record another major increase in its surplus which could drive down contributions for employers and their staff. An upd ...

Two master’s programmes offered by European university alliances have become the first to receive a new quality label awarded by the European Commission that recognises joint de ...

Design disability-friendly healthcare education from the outset rather than rely on reactive accommodations, says Daphne ...

Computer science students often need to understand technical concepts hidden within layers of software. Here’s how extended ...

Technical competency is far from the only aspect of preparing students for an AI-driven world. Ethics also deserves attention, writes Jon Catherwood-Ginn. He uses applied theatre to help students ...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has pledged to halve the time it takes to review grant applications by targeting a 90-day turnaround for applicant-led bids. Announcing its lates ...

Staff pay at UK universities that do not participate in collective bargaining has risen marginally above the national offer, ...

Researchers often believe that science communication requires them to abandon depth. Storytelling, however, can provide a structure through which complex ideas become more accessible without losing ac ...

The inaugural members of a new UK “defence alliance” that aims to bring together academia and the armed forces have been named. Defence minister Luke Pollard launched the init ...

The former chief executive of the Office for Students (OfS) departed the organisation with payouts worth more than £100,000, ...

Australian universities increased their postgraduate enrolments during the coronavirus pandemic, although it left them no better off and even hurt them financially. But the gestur ...

Tough new standards on what constitutes a peer-reviewed journal should be enforced by governmental agencies, according to a Nobel prizewinning biochemist who claims that a “brok ...