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Race to diversify business schools’ offer ‘will be painful’

Focus switches to lifelong learning, TNE and online education as UK schools seek to overcome financial and demographic challenges

Accountability is not ‘overreach’, under fire v-c insists

Hands-off councils said to have contributed to ‘governance crisis’ that Australian sector ‘needed and in many respects deserved’

Arab University Rankings 2026: methodology

A careful approach is required to rank the Arab World’s universities fairly. We adjust our World University Rankings methodology to take into account the region’s distinctive characteristics

Chris Millward returns to OfS as interim fair access director

Birmingham professor to temporarily oversee access and participation at English regulator following departure of John Blake

Florida board says syllabuses must be made public for five years

Students meeting skill needs ‘should be subsidised, not indebted’

Government and business should pick up the tab for national priorities, says opposition leader turned university boss

Business schools told to up recruitment amid ‘uneven’ recovery

More than half of deans say parent universities want them to enrol more students, as leaders express concern over ‘growing disparities’

Trump approach to loan forgiveness ‘risks further politicisation’

President has criticised student debt for being too high but his attempts at reform have focused on removing benefits for people doing jobs he disagrees with

Our geoscience crisis will undermine Australia’s critical minerals promise

To fulfil its deal with the US, the country needs professionals who know where minerals are and how to extract them responsibly, says Sabin Zahirovic

UK research faces a radical overhaul

The recent skills White Paper foreshadows the shuttering of some or all research in certain UK universities. But what will the effects of that be on teaching – and on research itself? How could it be...

‘Very difficult moment’ prompts flight of US scientists to China

Slow departure of researchers for the East has increased as environment in US becomes more hostile

Dutch universities hope for change after far right falters

D66 election victory encouraging, sector leaders say, but financial and demographic pressures remain

Cardiff restructures professional services, impacting 1,000 staff

University proposes to merge existing administrative functions into central hub but unions fear move will add to ‘enormous pressures’