Donald Trump’s assaults on US science and universities in many ways mirror those previously enacted in Brazil by Jair Bolsonaro. Two years on from the latter’s election defeat, Patrick Jack assesses...
Employers are confining many low-skilled roles to graduates. Why should they care that this requires recruits to take on huge debt, asks Paul Wiltshire
Latest tweaks to international education rules accentuate gap between treatment of public universities and increasingly desperate private colleges
Groups struggle to find board members as financial pressure on students increases, umbrella body says
AI institute pledges to support national goals and ‘deliver innovation’ on a level not possible in individual universities
Number of students placed on courses on day one the highest since records began, with direct to clearing route also seeing unprecedented interest
Warnings UK failing to keep up with international competitors as real-terms research expenditure declines
Success of Trump-inspired nationalist party will increase scrutiny over institutions’ plans to?grow overseas intakes, academics predict
Network of political appointees at universities and grant agencies will be difficult to dismantle, scholars warn
With a nod to community needs, and a nod to the political winds, Canberra puts accessibility before ‘institutional ego’
Review?finds strong support for dissemination of results rarely followed through in practice
As an editor, I am receiving submissions from spurious authors consisting of previously published papers altered by AI. But why, asks Seongjin Hong
Findings show importance of arts-based approaches to mental health challenges, say authors
Record number of applicants brings temporary relief to under-pressure institutions, but issues of ‘systematic underfunding’ remain