“Virtual fellowships” have allowed academics in Gaza to continue their research despite the widespread destruction of universities in the Israel-Hamas war.

The interim vice-chancellor of the cash-strapped Australian National University (ANU) approved a A$170,000 (£89,000) consultancy contract for a “rapid communications stocktake, ...

The Scottish Greens have pledged to oppose “artificially competitive” higher education funding mechanisms, including the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Teaching Excel ...

She added that “additional funding that restores astronomy grants and consolidated grants to their 2025 to 2026 financial year levels will also be subject to regular peer review, taking guidance from ...

Birkbeck, University of London has become the latest institution to set up a hub in India, opening a campus in Bengaluru that offers both undergraduate and postgraduate business-r ...

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Universities have been urged to work on facilitating the “civic mobility” of their students in a politically fractious time by the director of a new US research centre. The Rutgers Democracy Lab, part ...

Higher education expects first-gen students to conform to a rigid structure that doesn’t suit their lives. Here’s how to ...

Rigid course structures can shut students out. Designing for flexibility helps ensure that those juggling work, care and ...

In an era of lifelong learning and reskilling, undergraduate cohorts include students balancing work, caregiving and studies across life stages. Flexibility should be a foundational design principle r ...

The leading Welsh parties’ manifestos fall short of addressing the challenges faced by universities as election campaigning enters the final straight, policy experts have sugges ...

Thirunamachandran said the role of vice-chancellor has also grown significantly more difficult in recent years – going from ...