Northern Irish universities ‘in limbo’ after year of no government
Failure to restore power-sharing means funding issues leading to brain drain are not being resolved, warns Queen’s University Belfast v-c
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Insecure employment ‘inevitable when funding is insecure’
Australian universities push responsibility for casualisation onto Canberra’s funding arrangements
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More than 100 jobs at risk as Brighton seeks to save £17 million
University says cuts will ‘strengthen its position’ amid ongoing fee freeze, but union blames costly campus redevelopmentÂ
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Academia must respond to AI advances, says Google’s Cerf
Universities have focused on impact on assessments, but internet pioneer tells THE conference changes must extend to teaching and research
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Peer review is broken. Paying referees could help fix it
Offering payment has risks, but it could expand the pool of willing reviewers beyond those on permanent academic salaries, says Duncan MoneyÂ
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Iran to reward professors for overseeing pregnant students
Government policy is ‘a lot of hot air’ given lack of support for female faculty, says scholar
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Indian universities’ silence on Modi degrees ‘shows climate of fear’
Avoidance of questions about prime minister’s qualifications suggests growing political interference, scholars say
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Campus free-speech crisis inspires new stage comedy
‘Creeping authoritarianism’ and university expansion behind Ryan Craig’s play, after academia largely absent from UK stage since 1980s
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Overseas students tell universities: ‘no housing, no enrolment’
As rentals become scarcer and dearer, international students are increasingly unwilling to travel without pre-arranged lodgings
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Abstracts matter more than you think – and writing a good one is hard
Even academics, never mind practitioners, will rarely read beyond an underwhelming and uninformative summary, says Maia Chankseliani
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‘Significant reservations’ on UK’s Springer Nature open-access deal
Anger over high cost of publishing in Nature and other titles as UK universities sign up for three-year agreement
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‘Privilege pays’ as rich graduates ‘out-earn’ disadvantaged peers
Earnings gap for poor graduates applies even taking into account university attended and subject studied, Taso report finds
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Early adopters of direct admissions expect record class sizes
Practice in which a student creates a portfolio of study preferences and then receives offers helps US colleges boost size and diversity of new intake