At present, responsibility for universities are split between the Department for Education (DfE), and the DSIT, with the latter’s £13.9 billion budget in 2025-25 including some £8.8 billion for UK ...

When an academic role ends abruptly, through redundancy, restructuring or a contract that isn’t renewed, the loss can feel like grief. Victoria Gibbon shares a structured journaling exercise that help ...

Is higher education’s civic engagement becoming performative? Here’s how to embed it in teaching, research and governance ...

Students’ expectations of future happiness in Australia – rather than immediate issues like social support or English ...

In one case, UCU was “supporting an ECR in HLS who was refused confirmation in appointment on the basis of insufficient grant income, and was issued with a one-year extension explicitly requiring them ...

University workers have more faith in new UK prime minister Andy Burnham than in his predecessor Keir Starmer, while the majority believe education secretary Bridget Phillipson is ...

Iranian students in the Netherlands are calling on universities and the Dutch government to provide emergency financial support, warning they risk having to abandon their studies ...

A flexible, agile approach to AI skills development allows faculty and students to choose the guidance, resources and learning opportunities that best fit their roles and contexts ...

We can’t put AI back in the box. Instead, higher education needs to find a way to make students think despite it ...

How to promote interaction, a sense of collective responsibility and reflective practices to prevent students from ‘dividing ...

Ministers have dismissed calls to exempt more students from the international fee levy, confirming universities will be charged even for enrolments who later drop out. Publishing ...

Virtual reality can help bring complex disciplines to life, widen access and build stronger partnerships with schools. Learn ...