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5 March

More students from war zones enrol on UK university courses

5 March

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

5 March

One-word university ratings are fool’s gold

Rather than designating England’s universities gold, silver or bronze the TEF should promote deeper understanding of teaching quality, says Steve Briggs

By Steve Briggs

5 March

Government bailouts a ‘moral hazard’ for universities, says Peck

4 March

Jane Norman, University of Nottingham vice-chancellor, with an aerial shot of the Jubilee campus in the background.

End of Nottingham’s expansive era leaves new v-c taking stock

4 March

More than quarter of world’s top 200 universities led by women

Number of female university leaders reaches record high, with Switzerland seeing biggest growth

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Events

Digital Universities Europe 2025

10 March - 12 March 2025

Wroclaw, Poland

When to use an AI professor (and why you might not need one)

By Leonard Ng Wei Tat

Trump stresses transparency but releases little accurate data

By Jessica Blake

5 March

Trump administration targets Columbia for allegedly failing to stop antisemitism

By Johanna Alonso

5 March

McMahon outlines her ‘final mission’ for the department

By Susan H. Greenberg

5 March

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

5 March

More students from war zones enrol on UK university courses

5 March

Government bailouts a ‘moral hazard’ for universities, says Peck

4 March

Elon Musk survives Royal Society expulsion bid

By Jack Grove

4 March

University bailouts needed as 5,000 jobs axed, UCU tells Labour

4 March

Indonesia rules out tuition fee rises after student protests

3 March

‘Double fraud’: end Indian academics’ fake patent scam, UK urged

By Jack Grove

3 March

Quality worries as Korea edges towards international student goal

1 March

Universities ‘sharing burden’ after Hong Kong claws back reserves

28 February

Universities steamrolling the ‘equity sector’, paper warns

5 March

‘Computer glitch’ freezes A$1,600 PhD visa applications

5 March

University of Melbourne bans indoor protests

3 March

Research grant suspension ‘about probity, not politics’

28 February

News

A man uses his laptop while waiting at Hong Kong's international airport, illustrating that many PhD applicants have been left in limbo after a computer glitch affected their application for an Australian visa.

‘Computer glitch’ freezes A$1,600 PhD visa applications

Australian department ‘not aware’ of computer ‘bug’ that applicants blame for torpedoing their PhD dreams

5 March

Damage to an apartment building in Kyiv, an explosion due to a hit by a military shell.

More students from war zones enrol on UK university courses

British Council report raises concerns about unequal relationships and brain drain

5 March

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

Neeli Bendapudi on being an outsider and a trailblazer, students as customers and nurturing the world’s largest alumni network

5 March

Universities steamrolling the ‘equity sector’, paper warns

5 March

More than quarter of world’s top 200 universities led by women

5 March

Government bailouts a ‘moral hazard’ for universities, says Peck

4 March

End of Nottingham’s expansive era leaves new v-c taking stock

4 March

University bailouts needed as 5,000 jobs axed, UCU tells Labour

4 March

Elon Musk survives Royal Society expulsion bid

By Jack Grove

4 March

Open-source investigation courses target ‘crisis in democracy’

By Patrick Jack

4 March

Welsh subject review may lead to Senedd interventions – minister

3 March

Edinburgh staff fear ‘manufactured crisis’ in £140 million cuts

3 March

Did the pandemic change higher education forever?

When Covid-19 forced the sudden closure of campuses, conference venues and national borders, many predicted that academia would emerge from the experience forever changed. But five years on from the first wave of lockdowns, how accurate has that proved to be? Juliette Rowsell reports

3 March

Catholic statue of Catherine of Sienna holding a crown of thorns, St. Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne, Australia. With a mortarboard tassel added to illustrate the double act of being Catholic and being a university.

How Catholic should a Catholic university be?

Disagreements over the extent to which Catholic teaching should influence academic practice have caused ructions at the Australian Catholic University. But where exactly should the line between academic freedom and spiritual doctrine be drawn in a church-owned university? John Ross reports

Women carrying mangrove saplings for planting in barren land in Charkop village, Kandivali in Mumbai. To illustrate UK universities looking to set up branch campuses in India.

Could Indian branch campuses bail out struggling Western universities?

India’s opening up to overseas outposts has injected new life into a form of transnational education that many observers had considered to be moribund. But will the clutch of early adopters blaze a successful trail for others to follow? And what exactly would that look like? Helen Packer reports

Opinion

By Steve Briggs

One-word university ratings are fool’s gold

Rather than designating England’s universities gold, silver or bronze the TEF should promote deeper understanding of teaching quality, says Steve Briggs

5 March

A missile with a mortar board, symbolising universities' role in national security

The crisis in UK higher education is a national security issue

The UK cannot enter an era of heightened geopolitical instability without high levels of social resilence, say Katharine Wright and Megan Armstrong

Depressed mechanics in the US, in front of an American flag

If Republicans really want to help their voters, they should boost HE

Raging against the ‘woke elites’ running US universities won’t help the millions of Americans who lack decent, family-sustaining jobs, says John Austin

One would-be Romanian president is a plagiarist. But will voters care?

By Ararat Osipian

28 February

US universities must not obey Trump and Musk in advance

By Johann Neem

27 February

Don’t lament the sunset of imperial language departments

By Tomasz Kamusella

26 February

Australia’s student participation targets risk being a lost cause

By Justin Bokor

24 February

World policy

The demise of India’s journal whitelist highlights regulatory challenges

The recent arrest of accreditation council members only underlines that competence of regulation is as much of an issue as its degree, says Pushkar

Editor’s pick

University libraries must be ‘access brokers’, not knowledge repositories

Subscribing to nearly everything published by journals is no longer feasible in these financially straitened times but librarians can provide creative workarounds to ensure journal access, says Liam Bullingham

Only a nationwide strike can stem the carnage in UK higher education

Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model, says Rhiannon Lockley

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Talking leadership

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

Neeli Bendapudi on being an outsider and a trailblazer, students as customers and nurturing the world’s largest alumni network

5 March

End of Nottingham’s expansive era leaves new v-c taking stock

Jane Norman eyes more focused approach for university after decades of rapid growth, with new financial paradigm forcing ‘hard conversations’