Students

Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds

Students ‘left in limbo’ by Chichester’s decision to make pioneering black professor redundant

Lecturers fear rising staff-student ratios will exacerbate ‘gulf’ between elite institutions and the rest, and create unmanageable workloads

Hopes quashed that things were improving for badly affected groups

Many asylum applicants began their journeys as students before Australia’s visas were overhauled almost a decade ago, new figures suggest

About 800 Nepali students at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology report being asked to leave institution following protests

Employment prospects the main motivation for half of students with satisfaction levels dented by high fees and low contact hours

OIA says sexual misconduct investigations too often marred by delays and poor communication

School pupils need better information on their post-16 options to avoid the risk of narrowing their university and career choices, says Hepi report

Capital comfortably outperforms rest of England on higher education access, but progress is stalling and there are significant intra-regional differences, warns report

New national body takes shape, as troubled centenarian predecessor faces curtain

I don’t begrudge granting help to students who need it, but we must also have guard rails to deny it to those who don’t, says Nikolay Kukushkin

Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds

Survey finds NHS bursary is not sufficient to cover living costs, with many trainee medics forced to cut back or take on additional work

Prompted by deadly train station collapse, thousands of students are calling for government accountability

Earnings gap between university bosses and ordinary workers has quintupled since Australia stopped regulating vice-chancellors’ salaries, analysis finds

Ombudsman for English and Welsh higher education says options include support fund, insurance scheme or change in legislation, as it announces record haul of complaints

Latest scheme designed to encourage graduates to live and work in less populated regions of the country

Students will now believe they can shut down debate of issues they find uncomfortable, rather than engaging critically, says a queer scholar

Universities must take a firmer hand with ‘zero-fail’ students, Australian study finds, amid policies to boost underprivileged participation

To maintain the graduate premium, universities must anticipate skills needs, guide good course choices and be open to everyone, says Shitij Kapur

Institutional communications branded ‘inconsistent, inauthentic, and rather annoying’ by study participants

‘Institutions think that they can just get away with it,’ conference focused on efforts to tackle campus sexual misconduct hears

English students oppose increase in tuition fees but uplift in maintenance support makes move more ‘palatable’, finds Hepi survey

High approval ratings for university teaching and overall usefulness of degrees, but mixed ratings on value and earnings premium, YouGov poll finds

Drawn-out complaints procedures that aren’t resolved before visas expire are unethical – and a poor advertisement for UK HE, says Sanaz Raji 

Administrative workloads rise as many more learners ‘dishonestly’ claim health-related essay extensions, survey suggests

Ombudsman urges providers in England and Wales to offer ‘timely’ communication over significant course changes

One in seven student rooms in UK capital now costs more than £20,000 annually, up from one in 20 just two years ago

Number of university-related antisemitic incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust doubles, with spike of reports in October 2023

Calls among academics and students for South Korean president’s resignation amplify after shock political crisis

Stella Maris launches judicial review against removal from governing body over Israel ‘genocide’ claim

Connecting with learners in other countries allows students to feel seen and heard on the global stage, says Nael Alami 

Loan scheme pioneer highlights moral hazard of Australia’s ‘Byzantine’ way of bankrolling master’s places

Senate victory a win for government following defeat of caps

English regulator responds to long-running criticism of engagement with learners

Keeping costs down ‘not an objective’ for research-addicted sector, says accountancy professor  

Questions cause alarm but the panel ‘wouldn’t be doing its job’ if it avoided them, commentators say

Hepi paper says keeping papers under lock and key could be harming student learning

Encouraged to use ChatGPT to help them with the hard stuff, my students let it do all their thinking for them. Maybe I should give up, says Dan Sarofian-Butin

Many credit right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk with mobilising young white college voters across key swing states

Any new home undergraduate enrolling on a course at University College Birmingham will be eligible for the allowance

Crossbench party wants debt reduction legislated straight away, while opposition dismisses measure as an elitist ‘election bribe’

Collegium Humanum allegedly issued more than 1,000 fast-track MBA degrees in exchange for ‘financial and personal benefits’

Student aid form delays seen as deterring some students from enrolling this autumn, but modifications still seen as making things simpler for future applicants

The rise of Asian higher education has coincided with increasing graduate un- and under-employment in several nations, calling the value of degrees into question and threatening national stability. But is the problem underprepared students or dysfunctional politics and economies? Helen Packer reports

University to investigate claims that investigation into abuse in halls of residence was doctored by senior leaders, amid mounting political pressure

Horse set to follow the cart, as critics warn of perverse consequences

‘Alarming precedent’, says union; ‘interim solution’ pending ‘appropriate governance’, says university

Some A$15 billion of student debt relief will do almost ‘nothing’ to help cash-strapped Australian institutions

Poll finds third of UK undergraduates worried for future of their institution amid funding crisis

Hundreds of thousands of university leavers alerted to cashback eligibility

Misleading claims that some undergraduates are unjustly receiving extra help obscure how many universities are actually failing to provide sufficient support to disabled students, says Chris Pepin-Neff

With ethnic minority students missing disproportionately more classes, traditional timetabling risks widening attainment gaps, says Christopher Byrne

Some resisters mistrust tertiary education but others just do not see the need

Charge students to retake passed exams, Norwegian government tells universities

Campaigners think some groups of students, particularly those from overseas, are much less likely to report disabilities and mental health conditions

Regulator will ask students about their experience of sexual misconduct within higher education institutions following a pilot survey in July

Report comes after former student convicted of 2023 attempted murder of academic

Parliamentarians dismiss warnings about workload and academic freedom infringements