USS to revisit £7.5 billion deficit valuation Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead Jack Grove 11月 22日
UK government sold student loans ‘for too little return’ MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments John Morgan 11月 22日
More transparency still needed on how fees are spent, says report Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study Simon Baker 11月 22日
DfE ‘bends over backwards’ to help England’s biggest for-profit Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’ John Morgan 11月 22日
Boris Paton: I may be turning 100, but I’m not retiring yet After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War Jack Grove 11月 22日
Black academics ‘paid thousands of pounds less’ than white peers Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds Jack Grove 11月 22日
Radical Irish gender plan ‘could be model for Europe’ Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets David Matthews 11月 22日
James Stirling, 1953-2018 Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London Matthew Reisz 11月 22日
Durham student jailed for life by UAE court on spying charges Matthew Hedges, a PhD student specialising in Middle Eastern politics, was detained at Dubai airport on 5 May and held in solitary confinement Rachael Pells 11月 21日
First university visit to Auschwitz aims to combat antisemitism Students’ union leaders and university staff visit former Nazi concentration camp to help stamp out discrimination on UK campuses Ellie Bothwell 11月 21日
UK research council ‘misleading’ on quality of doctoral training Fewer than half of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centres for Doctoral Training rated ‘good’ Rachael Pells 11月 21日
Grade inflation: how certain subjects fuel rise in firsts Data analysis by THE looks at three disciplines where the rise in firsts has been particularly high Simon Baker 11月 21日