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My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE reporter Jack Grove

In examining sociologist’s PhD thesis, our journalists were seeking to address matters of legitimate public interest, writes Chris Havergal

UK-wide survey of university promotion policies reveals emphasis on PhD recruitment and completions, rather than the need for high-quality support

Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

Caught between academic and service roles, educational developers have struggled to define their exact remit. As AI raises questions about the value of HE, they should focus on implementing leaders’ pedagogical strategy in line with different academic cultures, say Claire Gordon and Samantha Smidt

Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world

As ߣߣÊÓƵn scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition

Institutions hope to show worth to new government by training more doctors and teachers, but say they need policy commitments in return

Royal Society and British Academy back increase in education research spending after study reveals funding gap compared to health

Higher education might not be doorstep issue for voters but the importance of universities in tackling the world’s biggest problems has never been higher, argue Amanda Broderick and Patrizio Bianchi

Amid yawning teacher shortages and one-sided funding regime, colleges warn that their successful model of localised training faces collapse

Subject rankings are diversifying, with more representation outside the US and UK, but old elite still take top places

The UK government is freezing ‘troublemaking’ educationalists out of policymaking. Universities should model better forms of debate, says Clare Brooks

At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan Palmowski

Education faculties say they are already delivering the ‘core content’ now mandated in their degrees

Our report suggests the discipline is struggling in the UK amid low funding and methodological clashes, say four academics

The University and College Union has empowered a militant minority to push through divisive policies that will alienate its membership, says Julia Bell

English regulator’s chair says registration fees will rise as its activities expand

Panel advises against punitive performance funding measures, opting for financial incentives and transparency

Total number of applications to study for a degree in UK down by 2.3 per cent at January deadline

BERA report indicates education departments tend to be older and more white, with men in most senior positions

Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch

Founder of China’s New Education Initiative will use award money to expand programme’s reach to rural areas

As it emerges from its Covid isolation, ߣߣÊÓƵ is rolling back restrictions on foreign students and graduates in the hope of ushering more of them into its depleted workforce. But amid competitive and political pressures, has it found the best balance between work and migration rights, asks John Ross

From admissions to outreach and student data collection, the undergraduate journey must be reviewed to narrow unacceptable social and educational inequalities, say Kim Hunter Reed and Ray Belton

Enormous efforts to increase links between research fields have failed to consider how undergraduates can also benefit and contribute, says Stephanie Marshall

One of UK higher education’s leading data scientists, DataHE’s founder Mark Corver presents the key statistics that will define this year’s turbulent A levels and clearing season

Bursaries and scholarships among other measures to solve teaching workforce ‘crisis’

Universities and colleges have such a range of histories, missions and demographics that proposing single solutions is misguided, says Harvey Graff

Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend

Senior academics who flatter juniors and promulgate a high-minded vision of higher education are all in recruitment mode, says Harvey Graff

Teaching modules intensively, rather than in parallel, has had positive results at the handful of institutions that have tried it. But would it work for all students and all subjects? And would academics trade autonomy in course design for more research time? Anna McKie reports

ߣߣÊÓƵn universities’ ongoing embrace of digital approaches is cheapening learning â€“ but not in a good way, says Binoy Kampmark

A major new survey underlines the value that students derived from flipped learning during the pandemic, says Harriet Dunbar-Morris

US and UK lose dominance in law, while social sciences, business and economics and education results also released

A deeply flawed government consultation on ITT risks precipitating teacher shortages and undermining university research, says Ems Lord

Educators now accept that digital tools are neither inapplicable to educational settings nor incompatible with sector values, says Jo Johnson

It is 2041. Knee-jerk politics is conspicuous by its absence and students are willing to actually hear each other. But is this odd spectacle a premonition or just a dream, wonders Jonathan Zimmerman

Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave of cheating – or is AI just another technical aid that teaching and assessment will evolve to take account of? John Ross reports

A one-time fix via executive order – which could be overturned by the next administration – fails both future students and taxpayers, says Avery Davis

Wider take-up by academics requires both relevance to specific disciplines and accessibility across disciplines, says Camille Kandiko Howson

As Isaiah Berlin showed, academics need to reflect on who is sidelined by commitments to ‘positive’ freedom, says Joseph Mintz

Public confusion is one thing, but some subjects provoke quizzical and sometimes dismissive frowns even among colleagues from different departments. Here, nine academics set the record straight about what they do – and why it matters

Thousands of families are on a ‘high risk’ path to overseas education

Churches’ grip on former religious teacher training colleges is incompatible with their remit as publicly funded universities, says Keith Sharpe

Concentrating funding on top universities around Beijing and Shanghai risks alienating students forced to settle for less exalted institutions, researchers say

Foreign students, mostly from Asia, ‘will simply go elsewhere’ if Biden doesn’t act soon

Better and more open policies should accompany rapid jump in overseas recruitment, scholars say

Female students face barriers in fields such as military studies and mining

His experience teaching in Iraq has underlined for Jack R. Williams the perils of simply extrapolating from personal experience

Only losers focus on excellent science. Better to cook the books, spin the wheel and trust to cronies, say Robert de Vries and John Jerrim

Senior administrators should serve the greater good, not pander to their most powerful stakeholders, says Kathy Johnson Bowles

Hamish Coates calls for creation of transnational accreditation system to pull the region together post-Covid

Evidence suggests that different personality types are drawn to – and excel at – teaching and research, says John Dreijmanis

Inevitable examples of jargon or poor research are no reason to reject an entire discipline, say Debby Cotton, Elizabeth Cleaver and Dilly Fung

Budget, seen as ‘remarkable commitment’ to education, could be leveraged to improve IT and teaching quality

Most lecturers dread educationalists’ holier-than-thou, discipline-blind invocations of the latest teaching fads, says an anonymous academic

We need to teach all students to listen better, to ask the right questions and to be willing to be wrong, says Anne Houtman

Digitising classes was the first part – the next challenge is to make materials engaging and personalised, experts say

Online courses should be easily adaptable to post-Covid circumstances â€“ whatever they may be, says An Jacobs