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UK government to clarify terms of ‘mis-sold’ student loans
12+ hour, 25+ min ago (597+ words) The Burnham government has responded to calls to change how student loan information is presented to prospective students to help them make more informed choices about their futures. The decision is a response to a report by the Treasury Select…...
Debate on overseas students ‘a big challenge’, UUKI head suggests
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (419+ words) Emphasising the economic impact of international students has been “quite successful” in the “short-term”, the director of Universities UK International (UUKI) has said. But according to Jamie Arrowsmith, the laser-eyed focus on how such students financially contribute to UK universities…...
Iran poised to criminalise unapproved academic collaborations
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (745+ words) Iran’s parliament has approved a bill that would restrict all forms of academic collaboration with international universities. The legislation places academics in danger of imprisonment for up to 30 years for contact with foreign higher education institutions. If done without state…...
Changes proposed to Australian university funding overhaul
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (556+ words) Australia’s university funding overhaul is bogged down in parliament’s upper house, after the opposition introduced a raft of amendments to the “Opening the Doors of Opportunity” bill. Amendments to be moved by a Liberal Party senator would remove the education…...
Wales could grant stay of execution to parts of exchange scheme
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (684+ words) The Welsh government is “still discussing” whether it wishes to keep some aspects of its bespoke international exchange scheme, put in place when the UK left the European Union. Despite concerns that the Cardiff government has been winding down Taith…...
Update poverty data and widen student discounts, say universities
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (726+ words) The representative body for Australian universities has called for an urgent stocktake of student finances, saying current welfare settings were designed before Covid-19, war and supply chain chaos caused runaway inflation. A Universities Australia (UA) analysis has found that students…...
Scrap caps on training NHS doctors, says Reform’s Braverman
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (767+ words) Reform UK would remove limits on training UK doctors and slash annual student loan expenditure by £4 billion in its first 100 days in office if it were to take power, says its education spokesperson Suella Braverman. In a speech to the…...
Matt Clifford resigns as Aria chair over Anthropic role
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (414+ words) The architect of the UK’s AI strategy, Matt Clifford, has resigned as chair of the publicly funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency, after an MP raised a conflict of interest concern over him joining the US firm Anthropic. In a…...
The Arday case should prompt a rethink of university autonomy
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (370+ words) Whatever else it may be, the Jason Arday affair is an illustration – and an acceleration – of the cultural right’s attacks on universities for supposedly being eroded by a fashion for inclusivity that overrides academic merit. At the same time, however,…...
Controversial economics discussion board back online after outage
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (696+ words) A controversial online discussion board used by PhD students and academics in the economics field is back online after an unexplained three-week hiatus prompted speculation that it had shut for good. Economics Job Market Rumors (EJMR), where anonymous users gossip…...