Stop rinsing our research budgets, university travel agents told Academics left ‘traumatised’ by ‘absurd’ and ‘Byzantine’ corporate booking systems that drain departmental travel funds By Jack Grove 16 March
Don’t get rid of the Office for Students, urges Dandridge Former OfS chief executive turned Bristol professor defends regulator ‘looking out for the interests of students’ as it comes under scrutiny By John Morgan 16 March
University investment zones ‘step in the right direction’ Jeremy Hunt uses spring budget aiming to harness potential of R&D to boost economic growth By Tom Williams 15 March
UCU members return to picket lines ‘determined’ Union begins six days of action across UK universities after controversial decision to pause walkouts By Tom Williams 15 March
Quality questions as publisher’s growth challenges big players Analysis shows Swiss publisher MDPI set up almost 56,000 special issues with a closing date in 2023 By Jack Grove 15 March
Hundreds of science PhDs face axe as doctoral centres shuttered Postgraduate training likely to be concentrated in larger universities as EPSRC and Wellcome make cuts By Jack Grove 15 March
Universities’ budgets being cut to bare minimum, warns v-c Institutions ‘can no longer afford’ cross-subsidy for research, says Jenny Higham, leader of UUK review of sector funding By Tom Williams 14 March
Johnson: OfS hasn’t stopped universities ‘operating like cartel’ Architect of English regulator also criticises universities for ‘sniping’ at it By Tom Williams 14 March
Universities too ‘comfortable’ to embrace microcredentials OECD education director Andreas Schleicher urges shift towards lifelong learning, but says universities enjoy ‘nice monopoly rent’ from status quo By John Morgan 14 March
First AI ethics policy unveiled by Cambridge University Press New guidelines on use of ChatGPT follows plagiarism concerns and authorship controversies caused by rise of generative AI By Jack Grove 14 March
Universities’ REF policies are hitting non-researchers for six Forcing teaching-focused academics to produce 3* research is like asking a world-class cricket bowler to focus on batting, says a research director 14 March
The UK must associate to Horizon Europe without more delay It would be extraordinary if the UK chose to switch to Plan B at the very moment the main obstacle to Plan A was being removed, says Joanna Burton By Joanna Burton 14 March
