Indexation adds over A$5bn to Australian graduate debt
Despite ‘debt avalanche’, universities stress that tuition fee loans are ‘not like grocery bills’
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Lieber avoids prison in China case
In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer
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DeSantis trustees begin denying tenure
New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates
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Breaking into the all-white academy
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
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Interview with Marc in het Panhuis
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
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Ivy League schools ‘should use endowments to increase admissions’
Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary
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Female leaders need support – not the abuse they currently endure
The barrage of personal abuse faced by women in leadership positions risks our gains on gender equality, says Dawn FreshwaterÂ
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The odds are stacked against the UK’s small and specialist providers
Challenger institutions offer innovation and dynamism, but ignorance and monopolistic behaviour is holding them back, says Edward VenningÂ
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Willetts: free speech bill ‘could protect extreme views’
Legislation aiming to eradicate ‘cancel culture’ will be used across political spectrum, not only by Conservatives, former minister predicts
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Republicans target US student subsidies
Aiming to deny routine extension of federal debt limit, House conservatives hope to force lower Pell grant upon millions of borrowers
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Benefits of universal income support for students ‘outweigh costs’
Parental income should not influence eligibility for living allowances, Australian academics argue
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Scotland’s universities at risk due to funding cuts, SNP warned
New leadership of Scottish government told to make sustainable higher education funding a priority after years of stagnation
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Last Kingdom academic helps Netflix get its facts right
University of Winchester historian Ryan Lavelle reflects on nearly a decade advising on streaming giant’s blockbuster Vikings series
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Casuals, let’s resist universities’ monstrous, penny-pinching ‘systems’
Doing admin is a poor use of your time as an expert. Make sure you invoice for it at your highest rate, says Andy Farnell
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Arkansas trustees reject University of Phoenix
Fears over reputation and secrecy deal major setback to online US university's once-promising bid for traditional higher ed partner