Nine months after Stephen Vainker first publicly raised concerns about a number of papers published in titles run by the British Education Research Association (Bera), which he claimed contain large ...

The court overturned the regulator’s finding that Sussex had failed to protect academic freedom and freedom of speech when it adopted a policy in 2018 banning so-called transphobic propaganda from its ...

The hackers – a group known as “ShinyHunters”, previously linked with data theft from Ticketmaster and Google as well as the universities of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard – threatened to leak ...

Jacqui Smith has urged UK universities to prioritise quality over “bums on seats” if they want to convince all of government of the value of international students.

Sheffield Hallam University faces staff strikes over its plans to make major changes to its pensions arrangements while a union has also expressed concerns about job cuts at Teesside University. Some ...

If students rely on AI summaries as starting points – or substitutes for enquiry – they risk bypassing the processes higher education is designed to cultivate: comparison, evaluation and critical ...

A scientist in his 40s said: “I no longer put any effort into my work. Indeed, I am retraining whilst maintaining the ...

A spokesperson said that the “difficult decision” had been made to suspend recruitment to undergraduate courses in history, philosophy, English literature, linguistics and creative writing because of ...

While most employers were “broadly satisfied” with the foundational skills of new hires, just over one-third of employers (35 ...

In findings researchers say cast doubt on the US Supreme Court’s decision to make race-based affirmative action illegal in higher-education admissions decisions in 2023, the presence of just one ...

“Singapore, like many other countries, pays lots of lip service to lifelong learning. They focus on trying to get middle-aged people into bachelor’s programmes, which are four times as long and just ...

With the ANRF also likely to introduce the declaration of retractions requirement for its other grant schemes, the rule change represented a “landmark” moment in research funding, believed Achal ...