Williamson confirms plan to consider post-qualification admissions
Education secretary says use of predicted grades in English system ‘breeds low aspiration and unfairness’
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Russian politics ‘plagued by PhD plagiarism’
Half of regional governors’ dissertations contained copied text, and these plagiarists went on to perform worse in government, research suggests
Faculty underwhelmed as Stanford belatedly tackles Covid sceptic
Wider reckoning expected after White House ally Scott Atlas urges uprising against governor
Firms shift towards wanting ‘work-ready’ graduates
Latest edition of Global University Employability Ranking suggests systems with closest industry partnerships on skills are on the rise
Online learning exacerbates inequality in India
Technocratic’ solutions alone cannot solve a societal problem, expert says
Physicists break new ground by getting back to the kitchen
Vital lessons can be learned from beer, bread and even batter, scientists say
Elsevier reaches open access agreement in Japan
Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world’s largest academic publisher
Canadian faculty describe despair from online teaching
Opposition, however, may be less about format and more about resource shortages
Hong Kong brain drain predicted as West launches ‘lifeboats’
Experts predict a post-Covid wave of emigration to the West, but university enrolment likely to unscathed
German university fears AI takeover could narrow mission
Struggling financially, the private Jacobs University is seeking new backers, but academics have been left shocked by plans for it to be turned into an AI institute by software giants
