Merging two major universities is a tense but rewarding Odyssey
No journey in strange new waters can be smooth sailing, but healthy conflicts have a place in innovation and transformation, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj
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University presses rack up legal bills over AI copyright breaches
London Book Fair discussion dominated by concern over large language models using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses
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Portuguese university apologises after sexual misconduct claims
Investigation follows publishing controversy that saw chapter detailing allegations withdrawn by Routledge
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Bangladesh and Vietnam ‘rising stars’ for student recruitment
India and China expected to remain top sending markets to 2030, but overall growth rate set to slow
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Courting controversy
As battles over industrial relations and identity politics rage, higher education’s fault lines are increasingly a matter for the courts. Is anyone winning?
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Interview with Lucy Noakes
Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond OxbridgeÂ
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South African vice-chancellors’ pay rises ‘morally bankrupt’
Average remuneration up by 8 per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for former Johannesburg head
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Lectures in question as paid work pushes attendance even lower
Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist
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Job-share vice-chancellors call to drive flexible working shift
UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank
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The week in higher education – 14 March 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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English regulator consults on tying funding to quality metrics
Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of £1.5 billion annual budget
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What does a $710 visa application buy? A cut-and-paste rejection
ߣߣÊÓƵn visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession
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Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke
The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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Is it time for Ukraine’s exiled academics to return?
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
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If abusive lawyers can be banned from practising, why not academics?
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe