Supporters must bear some blame for affirmative action’s tragic reversal
The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters’ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ‘diversity’, says Harvey Graff
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Chinese sector expansion focuses on vocational training
Opening of colleges running at 10 times the rate of development of new universities
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Elsevier journal board follows through on mass resignation threat
Editorial board of Design Studies quits alongside long-standing editor-in-chief, who blamed publisher’s ‘deeply exploitative’ approach to running the title
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Acceptance of overseas entrance exams is a new recruitment frontier
Use of the CSAT is likely to increase US enrolment of South Koreans but could bode ill for some of the latter’s domestic institutions, says Kyuseok Kim
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UK’s hiking of visa and healthcare fees ‘indefensible’
Researchers say big increases to cost of study and work visas, and NHS surcharge, will make country less attractive to international students and staff
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Student use of machine translation ‘a debate we have to have’
Assessment rationales have not kept pace with AI translation and writing support tools, conference hears
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A collective bargain
As financial pressure takes its toll, the Oxford vice-chancellor’s clarity and commitment to the health of the whole sector show a way forward
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Few UK universities raise overseas fees in line with inflation
With institutions reluctant to match soaring prices, per-student income is eroded further
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Overseas student caps in limbo after Dutch government collapses
A long-awaited law might face further delay after Mark Rutte's government collapses in a ‘polarised’ political landscape, while some universities are already capping places for non-Europeans without...
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Legacy admissions face challenge after affirmative action ban
Echoing conservative Supreme Court, coalition of advocacy groups formally demands end to Harvard’s admissions preferences for relatives of alumni
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South Yorkshire first of UK’s university-centred investment zones
Treasury announces first of 12 zones ‘based around a university and clusters of high-growth industries’
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Transformative agreements are now the key to open access
Commitments to flip individual journals have not proved to be the game changer that Springer Nature had hoped, says Steven Inchcoombe
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UCU pushes universities to up pay offer after public sector rises
Sector leaders insist rises of up to 7 per cent announced by Rishi Sunak are ‘irrelevant’ to higher education dispute
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UK universities ‘easy’ target for Chinese infiltration – MPs
China is ‘stealing UK academic research’ in ‘plain sight’ and suppressing political dissent on campus, says intelligence committee
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Disadvantaged students ‘left behind’ in admissions ‘arms race’
Department for Education statistics show social mobility impact of A-level assessments affected by Covid-19 policies