New Year Honours 2023: damehood for former OfS chief executive Academics Peter Mathieson and Vernon Bogdanor among those knighted for services to their disciplines or the sector Ben Upton 12月 30日
Levelling up UK’s regions will require reinvention of the university degree Expanding the blended or online learning currently on offer will not be enough to achieve reskilling agenda, says Betty Vandenbosch Betty Vandenbosch 12月 28日
No need to tie student visas to dropout rate, say Swedish rectors Government and institutions are aligned when it comes to recruiting genuine students, despite alleged visa abuse becoming a right-wing hobby horse Ben Upton 12月 27日
Utrecht short-haul flight ban ‘will cut emissions by 15 per cent’ Staff will need express permission to fly less than 700km, but subsidies for higher train fees are also being scrapped Ben Upton 12月 23日
Welsh universities ‘lose money on each student’ after funding cut Cardiff University’s Colin Riordan says disappointing proposed budget for Welsh universities will worsen financial pressures caused by inflation Jack Grove 12月 23日
Buckingham fined ?37K for filing 2019 accounts two years late Financial statements, when eventually published, revealed ‘material uncertainty’ over institution’s ability to keep running and ?17 million deficit Chris Havergal 12月 22日
Russia-Ukraine war reshapes global research collaboration China gains influence over neighbour as impact of Western boycotts already visible in paper co-authorship Pola Lem 12月 22日
International student cap would torpedo levelling up – Greening Former education secretary joined by 14 vice-chancellors in warning Westminster government against restricting overseas enrolment to ‘elite’ universities only Chris Havergal 12月 22日
Former USW v-c to chair Wales’ new post-16 education regulator Dame Julie Lydon joined at Commission for Tertiary Education and Research by former Research England chief David Sweeney Chris Havergal 12月 22日
ERC evaluation overhaul focuses on proposals over track record Tweaks to assessment processes are designed to broaden assessment and mollify disciplines that felt disadvantaged Ben Upton 12月 21日
Colin Harvey: critics seek to ‘delegitimise’ Irish unity research Embattled human rights professor faced abuse and threats online after DUP leader questioned latest report Tom Williams 12月 21日
