Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit ...

Westminster MPs have challenged the skills minister over her assertion that a university could keep teaching even if it became insolvent. Jacqui Smith recently told the House of Commons Education ...

The University of Southampton ’s vice-chancellor has announced he is moving to the University of Oxford next year. Mark E. Smith will become pro vice-chancellor at the top-ranked university in May ...

When impact measures were introduced to the REF in 2014, they were controversial. Today, it is hard to imagine a REF without them. In years to come, the same will be said about assessing a strong ...

Two of the first beneficiaries of £54 million Global Talent Fund discuss how US funding uncertainties – as well as desire for home comforts – influenced their decision to move ...

How a human-centred approach to embedding GenAI ensures the tool enhances human reasoning, rather than replacing it, ...

How can institutions navigate a landscape where some religious communities see equity, diversity and inclusion efforts as an ...

How to integrate science, technology, engineering, arts, humanities and mathematics to create interdisciplinary programmes ...

Epilepsy pioneer vows to target ‘negative view’ of discovery science and ‘mindset’ of expecting the outcomes in advance ...

Fair admissions and effective management should cover all areas of university operations, education minister tells v-cs in letter ...

Barely a third of social scientists believe their university would promote them based on the strength of their research impact, a global poll of researchers has found.

Reject calls for passive ‘neutrality’ and develop integrated plans to promote student voting, say Jonathan Becker, Erin Cannan and Yael Bromberg ...