The need for higher education institutions to show economic, social and environmental impact of their research and how it benefits communities is urgent. Here, a panel from Australia and New Zealand ...

The awarding gap for Black students compared with their white peers stood at 19.3 per cent in 2020-21 and widened to 21.6 per cent for the 2022-23 academic year. This disparity is concerning and ...

Academic hiring panels must manage the tension between effectiveness – hiring the right person for the job – and efficiency – making the search process reasonably quick and low-cost. Some universities ...

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As the regulations governing FP10 are thrashed out, there is a risk that industrial policy will taint the programme’s USP, says Jan Palmowski ...

Another rise in the cap on non-local students in Hong Kong has heightened fears about the strain expansion is placing on universities, with institutions being urged to further diversify intakes to ...

The move comes on top of almost three years of bans preventing Afghan girls and women from progressing beyond secondary school. “It is now more than 1,020 days since Afghan women were banned from ...

This could see providers told they must refrain from entering into new relevant subcontractual arrangements and force them to pay refunds or compensation to students if a franchised partner fails to ...

Otago v-c Grant Robertson says overhaul of New Zealand’s research assessment exercise combined with dire sector finances could present a ‘double whammy’ for some subjects ...

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Union plans to take four weeks of continuous strikes as university reviews staffing across several academic departments ...

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