Canada scraps interest on federal student loans
Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity
Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity
First results of landmark survey of 42,186 employees and students released
While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees
New subject guidance mandates ‘narrowly skewed perspective on the history of mathematics’, leading academics claim
International students are ‘part of the solution, and not the problem’, says ex-minister on launch of new commission
A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair
Even if conditions are not right for the development of a ‘slow university’, we need at least to walk in that direction, says David Alexander
While India’s prestigious IITs flex fundraising muscle, others in sector are ‘left in the lurch’
Revealing desk rejection rates, peer review processing times and other useful operational data would do more to correct slipshod journal practices than an ‘author’s bill of rights’, says Jerry Jacobs
Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised
The student accommodation crisis seen in many UK cities highlights the need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to town-gown issues, says Neal Juster
Student union demands overhaul as post-Covid cost pressures exacerbate student poverty
Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West
Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ‘the most dangerous thing’ happening in modern-day Russia
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development calls for a rethink to skills policy, including apprenticeships, following new findings on graduate employment