1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (597+ words) The Burnham government has responded to calls to change how student loan information is presented to prospective students to help them make more informed choices about their futures. The decision is a response to a report by the Treasury Select…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (518+ words) Australian universities and colleges will be charged a yet-to-be determined levy to fund a mandatory complaints resolution service, with fines for institutions that miss payment deadlines and regulatory crackdowns on those that do not pay at all. Legislation introduced into…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (254+ words) Universities invest heavily in supporting Black students, yet most of that support is built around what students supposedly lack. This deficit framing is well documented across the sector. The problem is that this approach overlooks the nuances between Black domestic…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (396+ words) I finished in three years flat with no corrections. My first monograph was published a few months after graduation and went into a second edition a couple of years ago. My ambition, absurd as it sounds now, was to go…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (686+ words) The newly anointed Scottish tertiary education minister has warned of a “very sharp” divide between Westminster and Holyrood on student migration, while urging the UK to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility scheme in the longer term. Alyn Smith, appointed by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (556+ words) Australia’s university funding overhaul is bogged down in parliament’s upper house, after the opposition introduced a raft of amendments to the “Opening the Doors of Opportunity” bill. Amendments to be moved by a Liberal Party senator would remove the education…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (684+ words) The Welsh government is “still discussing” whether it wishes to keep some aspects of its bespoke international exchange scheme, put in place when the UK left the European Union. Despite concerns that the Cardiff government has been winding down Taith…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (353+ words) The president’s aspiration to build world-class academic excellence – underscored by his invitation to world-renowned UK institutions to explore institutional partnerships in Indonesia – is necessary for a nation aiming to escape the middle-income trap. Nevertheless, the mismatch between aspiration and execution…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (751+ words) A leading researcher has claimed that her talk at a South African university was cancelled because of “institutional concerns about the participation of international academics”. ’Funmi Olonisakin, vice-president for international, engagement and service at King’s College London, was due to…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (890+ words) The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns. The Invisible Majority: Professional and support staff and the future of UK higher education…...