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Victoria latest state to launch university governance inquiry

Parliamentary probe will focus on staff and student representation on university councils

Iranian student loses PhD place after ‘arbitrary security checks’

Researcher says course at Sorbonne did not require clearance, but university decided to conduct screening anyway

Tighter recruitment rules ‘tool to lower student asylum numbers’

Course completion rate restrictions seen as way to tackle issue as peers mull whether new law is needed to stop student claimants

ߣߣÊÓƵn university governance proposals ‘don’t go far enough’

New principles that would require universities to publish executive salaries and conduct v-c performance reviews ‘should be mandatory’

Empty theatre posing as strategy will force universities off the stage

Four factors are demanding a radical strategic rethink at universities in ߣߣÊÓƵ and around the world, says Massimo Garbuio

Skills White Paper: key reforms at a glance

Government commits to raising tuition fees and maintenance loans, with universities expected to deliver higher-quality teaching and more specialised research in return

UVA, Dartmouth latest to reject Trump’s higher education compact

Skills White Paper: Labour commits to automatic tuition fee rises

Bridget Phillipson says fees to rise with inflation for next two academic years with automatic annual increases then set to be introduced

Global Academic Reputation Survey 2026 launching soon

Survey results will help fuel ߣߣÊÓƵ’s next series of rankings

Government to back student limits for ‘low-quality’ universities

Higher education institutions could be penalised if they offer courses deemed subpar as universities await Labour’s reform plans

Universities ‘far down the list’ as SNP eyes another election win

Mounting institutional deficits form backdrop to coming Holyrood campaign as nationalist party looks to extend grip on power

Low outcomes for business courses blamed on recruitment pressures

Schools coming under ‘intense pressure’ to enrol students as universities become ever more reliant on cross-subsidy

AI threatens universities’ ability to bolster democracy

To protect critical, context-rich thinking in HE, knowledge agency must be quickly reclaimed from Big Edtech, say Dirk Lindebaum and Gazi Islam 

Trump’s compact ‘nationalising universities’ as deadline looms

Civil liberties champion Nadine Strossen says US universities must unite to fight president’s ‘blatantly illegal’ plan to destroy institutional autonomy

Why are universities still teaching referencing styles?

In the digital era, inserting a reference into a text is as easy as pressing control-K. So why do universities still insist on troubling students with the minutiae of traditional referencing styles...