Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary in Andy Burnham’s government as Downing Street confirms the end of a standalone science department in Whitehall. Powell, who h ...

Patrick Vallance has resigned as science minister amid rumours that his department will be disbanded by Andy Burnham as he becomes prime minister. A former UCL medical school dean ...

Staff working at the universities of Kent and Greenwich say they “still have hundreds of questions” as the official merger ...

Australia’s “unfair” tuition fee regime can be fixed without putting pressure on government coffers or inflicting politically unpalatable price hikes on future nurses and te ...

The third objection is that I have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and purpose of a doctorate. Really? For ages, there have been calls to reform the whole PhD process to be more “fit for ...

A flexible, agile approach to AI skills development allows faculty and students to choose the guidance, resources and learning opportunities that best fit their roles and contexts ...

For years, higher education has rewarded students for producing answers efficiently. They learned how to absorb information, reproduce knowledge and satisfy evaluation systems built around outputs.

Guidance on teaching international student cohorts with varying language proficiency and on creating inclusive classrooms where multilingual students can all participate and flourish Today, more ...

When an academic role ends abruptly, through redundancy, restructuring or a contract that isn’t renewed, the loss can feel like grief. Victoria Gibbon shares a structured journaling exercise that help ...

Is higher education’s civic engagement becoming performative? Here’s how to embed it in teaching, research and governance ...

In a comment on LinkedIn, the University of Birmingham ’s vice-chancellor Adam Tickell said he hoped the “rumours of DSIT’s demise are unfounded”, arguing that a return to DBT would mean “universities ...

Students’ expectations of future happiness in Australia – rather than immediate issues like social support or English ...