England and Wales student loan interest rates to rise Students and high-earning graduates set to face 6.3 per cent interest following March’s retail price index figures John Morgan 4月 18日
Bill paves way for London colleges to gain university status Legislation making its way through Parliament could help address ‘brand confusion’ overseas John Morgan 4月 18日
Want to connect with your research? Try rapping it Public health academic says studies must speak the same language as their subjects Matthew Reisz 4月 18日
How much research goes completely uncited? Analysis from THE’s data team suggests big differences among disciplines in the amount of scholarship that fails to garner a citation Simon Baker 4月 18日
Exeter offers parents six months’ paid leave from day one in job Russell Group university hopes to poach researchers from competitors with generous scheme Will Ing 4月 17日
French researchers pledge to go without Springer journals ‘No more direct access to Springer’s latest papers? No problem,’ says petition, signed by nearly 4,000 David Matthews 4月 17日
Gender pay gap: call for transparency on university bonuses Reporting regulations too ‘ambiguous’, allowing institutions to interpret them to their advantage, experts argue Rachael Pells 4月 17日
Open University’s second-chance model ‘may already be gone’ Figures on student numbers suggest that 2012 funding reforms in England have already fundamentally changed the OU Simon Baker 4月 17日
REF open-access requirement for books ‘worth the outlay’ Concerns over cost and impact of proposals can be overcome, say scholars Rachael Pells 4月 17日
UK university staff offered 1.7 per cent pay rise for 2018-19 Trade unions asking for a 7.5 per cent uplift or an extra ?1,500, whichever is greater Jack Grove 4月 16日
'Academically' educated 'show higher support for British values' Study calls for more focus on providing citizenship education to those on vocational track John Morgan 4月 16日
Ex-CNRS head: don’t rip up French recipe for research success Concerns that France’s flagship research body is too large and unwieldy to move with the modern times are unfounded, says former president Alain Fuchs Jack Grove 4月 16日