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Can collective pay bargaining survive in the UK?

Diverging financial pressures are putting untold strain on common pay and pension arrangements. As recent pay awards constrain richer universities’ ability to reward their staff as they see fit while...

Universities can fix America’s broken credit transfer system

Providing a pathway from little-known community colleges to highly acclaimed universities, America's credit transfer system is internationally admired for driving social mobility and offering a vital...

Australia’s international caps will hurt Indigenous students most of all

Limiting overseas enrolments will reduce diversity and hit capacity to fund programmes that enhance Indigenous higher education, says Barry Judd

Caps, curbs and crises

Planned recruitment caps in Australia reflect a global shift in attitudes to internationalisation, exacerbating the woes of universities on multiple fronts

12 September 2024 digital edition

Best foot forward: Steps to ethical (and productive) networking

Governments ‘want branch campuses to support development’

Transnational education moving beyond simply increasing higher education capacity, says THE report

Australian caps bill faces delay

Senate committee inquiry extended as members scrutinise impacts on vocational colleges

UK elitism cannot be fixed without Oxbridge admissions reform

A merit-based admissions lottery and strict caps on how many private school pupils go to Russell Group universities are necessary for a more egalitarian society, argue Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman

Interview with Josh Smalley

Great British Bake Off finalist and researcher at the University of Leicester discusses the importance of community outreach, and what academia can learn from baking

Is China turning away from international research collaboration?

Cross-border authorship may be stalling in part because domestic output is growing so rapidly, analysts suggest

Researchers urge end to post-holiday funding call deadlines

September and January deadlines disadvantage some and consume time off, academics say