Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.

George Holmes coming out fighting tonight after being dismissed as University of Greater Manchester vice-chancellor www.timeshighereducation.com/news/george-...

Sociology professor Jason Arday has announced he is leaving his role at the University of Cambridge after facing questions over his academic work www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jason-a... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Jason Arday resigns after Cambridge opens investigation

Star sociology professor quits amid allegations of plagiarism and academic misconduct

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George Holmes departs as University of Greater Manchester vice-chancellor amid ongoing police investigation into the institution www.timeshighereducation.com/news/george-... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

George Holmes departs as Greater Manchester v-c

Governing body terminates contract amid ongoing police investigation into financial irregularities

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Office for Students softens free speech approach as complaints scheme nears - and in wake of Sussex ruling www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ofs-sof... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

OfS softens free speech approach as complaints scheme nears

Updated guidance reflects European Convention on Human Rights, which could make it easier for universities to restrict extreme views

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University of Bristol loses appeal against unfair dismissal and discrimination ruling in case of anti-Zionist academic David Miller, who says he looks forward to having his career "reinstated" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bristol... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social

Bristol loses appeal over ‘anti-Zionist’ academic’s dismissal

Claims of harassment made by sociologist David Miller also thrown out by appeals body

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‘Vital issues’ being missed in post-closure DSIT limbo, say MPs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vital-i... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

‘Vital issues’ being missed in post-closure DSIT limbo, say MPs

Parliamentary committee asks government to confirm details of plans for science as soon as possible

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A record number of young people in Scotland have secured places at university or college, with the pass rate for all the country’s exams increasing www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scottis... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social

Scottish Highers: record numbers secure university places

Proportion of A-C grades grows for second year in row while more people secure first choice place via Ucas

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Welsh HE funding review tasked with keeping more government student support in Wales, as Seren replaced with 'national learner progression programme' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/he-revi... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

HE review panel tasked with keeping more student funding in Wales

Eagerly-anticipated higher education review set to focus on student support funding, dismantling Seren and ‘bold reforms’, but recommendations must be ‘fiscally neutral’

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The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

Vietnam’s plans to slim down its public higher education sector by 20 per cent are not guaranteed to deliver the “world-class” university the country craves, experts warn www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fewer-u... via @rosalindskillen.bsky.social

Fewer universities ‘does not always equal better’, Vietnam warned

Country’s aim to shrink sector 20 per cent using mergers likely to have mixed results

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Efforts to expand gender-segregated courses in Israeli higher education risk harming the country’s academic standing, while failing to benefit the people they were designed to help, critics say www.timeshighereducation.com/news/israels... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Israel’s gender-segregated courses ‘a threat to academic quality’

Critics warn new law that expands segregation to postgraduate degrees will not be easy to undo, even if Netanyahu loses upcoming election

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The Australian university sector’s prosperity is built on shaky foundations, with revenue prone to market fluctuations, inflationary spikes and international education policy hostility. Meanwhile, students and some universities are struggling to survive www.timeshighereducation.com/news/explosi...

Westminster government resists call to raise household income threshold that determines whether English students qualify for the maximum student maintenance loan www.timeshighereducation.com/news/governm... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Government resists calls to raise student loan income threshold

Household earnings marker to remain stuck at £25,000 after ministers reject Lords recommendation

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Glasgow and Dublin announced as co-hosts of 2030 International Congress of Mathematicians - first to be held across two countries - after boycott of US event this year www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fields-... via @seher-education.bsky.social

Fields Medal event heads to Glasgow and Dublin after US boycott

Scotland and Ireland first co-hosts of prestigious gathering in 2030 after controversy surrounding this year’s event

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Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

Labour MP @chrismcdonaldmp.bsky.social looks likely to become the UK’s next science minister, although department is declining to confirm the appointment www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mcdonal... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

McDonald seen as likely science minister amid reshuffle confusion

Labour announces Stockton North MP will fill role in newly merged department, but officials say nothing has been decided

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How a new wave of small, specialist research universities are gaining ground in China, by @rosalindskillen.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinas-...

China’s ‘start-up universities’ come of age

Success of small, specialist institutions in attracting students and top scholars shows there are ‘other ways to educate’

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Several universities across England still permit staff-student relationships, a year since a change in regulations pushed institutions towards introducing bans, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-s... feat @annabull.bsky.social @bridgetsteele.bsky.social

Staff-student relationships still permitted, despite guidance

English universities still resisting introducing bans on relationships say they risk putting students in a more vulnerable position

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Must-read @hepi-news.bsky.social from Chris Husbands out today says UK HE heading for system of 1) global universities; 2) large regional universities; 3) local unis; 4) specialist institutions - with hard choices ahead www.timeshighereducation.com/news/worseni... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social

Worsening finances push English HE into ‘future nobody planned’

With financial pressures intensifying and income sources drying up, new report argues for more differentiated sector to avert worst-case scenario

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Artificial intelligence is already having an impact on research, and some suggest the technology could soon be capable of directing its own research programmes. But will human input ever become truly obsolete, @jgro-the.bsky.social asks several Nobel laureates #AI #Nobels https://ow.ly/VvzG50Zrifw

“If university leaders were hoping to climb up the priority list following the arrival of a new PM then the early signs will not be hugely comforting.” Sector experts on where Andy Burnham's ministerial appointments leave HE www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Universities ‘unloved’ by new government as No 10 confirms roles

Burnham government appointments signal focus on youth unemployment and skills as universities are left ‘without a home’, according to policy analysts

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Worries about being labelled “unprofessional” are preventing medical students from speaking out about concerns related to their education and clinical placements, warns @bma.org.uk www.timeshighereducation.com/news/medical... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Medical students ‘silenced’ by professionalism rules, BMA finds

Minor infractions being labelled as a breach of standards, potentially harming future careers

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Nine universities commit to funding remote/online postgraduate places for students affected by “visa brake” that blocked access to UK study www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scholar...

Scholarships offered to students affected by UK ‘visa brake’

Students blocked from UK education by new Home Office rules offered chance to study online or via transnational partnerships instead

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Universities are overestimating how often their teaching spaces are being used, with average occupancy levels of only 20 per cent www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social

University teaching spaces ‘only used 20 per cent of the time’

Institutions could mothball buildings at less busy times of year to cut exorbitant energy costs, estate expert suggests

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State intervention should not be “the default response to [universities] facing financial difficulties” and Westminster government's approach “is to allow orderly market exit where appropriate”, ministers tell MPs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/no-case... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

No case for insolvency regime for universities, government says

Ministers reject calls to legislate to clarify process for university going bust, despite admitting arrangements are unclear

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Scrapping DSIT midway through major reforms to research funding may signal Andy Burnham’s intention to entirely rethink how Labour tackles huge challenges facing the university sector, writes @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/loss-ds...

Jacqui Smith reappointed as skills minister www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jacqui-... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Jacqui Smith retains skills minister role in Burnham government

Labour peer to continue in position amid Cabinet shake-up, working with new education secretary Lucy Powell

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Jacqui Smith reappointed as minister of state across DfE and DWP last night, indicating that she is staying on as universities minister.

More than half of Andy Burnham’s newly announced Cabinet attended the universities of Cambridge or Oxford, making it the most Oxbridge-heavy administration of recent years www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-ha... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social

More than half of Burnham’s first Cabinet Oxbridge-educated

New ministers overwhelmingly attended Russell Group institutions, with just two non-graduates among number

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