‘Expect some softening’: where next for open-access books in REF?
Extending embargoes and permitting more exceptions are likelier than a full U-turn, suggest academic publishing experts
Extending embargoes and permitting more exceptions are likelier than a full U-turn, suggest academic publishing experts
Sector leaders say international students and researchers, funding and academic freedom at risk if National Rally wins power
Apparent elimination of longstanding regulatory process leaves higher education experts expecting more costs, complexities and confusions
A ‘jobbified’ university teaching ‘transferable skills’ and marketable degrees neglects so much that is crucial to vocational formation, says Chris Higgins
Private equity firm that owns one of the UK’s few private universities seeking to make triple its initial investment in latest deal
Nobuhle Nkabane succeeds much-maligned Blade Nzimande, who will retain science brief
Generative AI is ‘a bit like teenage snogging – everyone’s doing it although no one really knows how’
‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’
Asian superpower hopes recruiting more French students will help its position on the international stage
Platform must overcome cost and participation hurdles, but would benefit readers and researchers, experts say
Sector leaders say stopgap solution needed to ensure institutions remain viable, but extra funding is likely to come with strings attached
After Trudeau administration imposed sharp cut in student visas, institutions are now watching other restrictions having a much stronger effect
But Cambridge must reform procedures that have evidently left many colleagues traumatised, says Thomas Roulet
Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community
With few private school alumni, plenty of postgraduates and a few PhDs, Keir Starmer’s potential government is very different from Rishi Sunak’s top team