Universities Australia said placements came at a “real” cost. “Many students are forced to cut back or give up paid work while still covering rent, groceries, transport and other everyday expenses. No ...

Nine universities have committed to funding postgraduate places for students affected by a “visa brake” that blocked access to UK study. A new initiative launched by the chari ...

Financial pressures on English higher education are advancing far quicker than predicted, with the current system “unsustainable in any plausible funding model”, according to ...

Responsibility for English higher education remains split across several government departments and ministers following the formation of Andy Burnham’s new administration, stoki ...

The UK government has said it is “not currently persuaded” of the need to create a special administration regime for universities facing insolvency, also ruling out extra supp ...

Jacqui Smith has been re-appointed as skills minister in Andy Burnham’s new government, retaining a role that spans both the Department of Education (DfE) and the Department for ...

AI is not a single fixed tool but rather a rapidly evolving set of technologies that are changing university teaching and learning. Different models are opening new possibilities while also raising ...

A dedicated funding stream will be introduced for people with freshly minted PhDs, under final proposals from a drawn-out review of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC’s) c ...

Australian universities may need to appoint “internal ombudsmen” to referee campus disputes, after a bruising week of Royal ...

The third objection is that I have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and purpose of a doctorate. Really? For ages, there have been calls to reform the whole PhD process to be more “fit for ...

More than half of Andy Burnham’s newly-announced cabinet attended the universities of Cambridge or Oxford, making it the most Oxbridge-heavy administration of recent years. Fift ...

Momentum for the CJP has exploded over recent days after well-known activist and educator Sonam Wangchuk went on hunger strike in solidarity with the party. Wangchuk was on day 21 of his hunger strike ...