Consultants given an AI assistant produced worse answers on the one task it could not handle, and those also given a guide to prompting did the worst ...

Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden from 2014 to 2024 have graduated 82,300 PhD candidates, but they have difficulty recruiting their own national ...

The delay in the 2026 National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings after a large number of withdrawn research papers ...

Soft power is a good reason to build a campus, but only the host’s rules will keep it a university when the relationship ...

The researcher rating system of South Africa’s National Research Foundation, or NRF, no longer justifies its costs. The ...

Thinus Booysen’s recent critique of South Africa’s National Research Foundation, or NRF, researcher rating system should not ...

As Nottingham University becomes the latest UK university to announce serious cuts, two new analyses suggest government’s ...

Higher education increasingly speaks the language of ecosystems. Drawing lessons from nature and emerging experience in Mauritius, the next ...

The response of the National Research Foundation, or NRF, to an initial commentary about its researcher rating system concedes that the system’s ...

A doctorate should challenge a student without costing them their health or consuming the rest of their life. There will be ...

Africa cannot meet system-level problems with institution-level leadership. Our problems are horizontal, but our leadership ...

Efforts to decolonise higher education in Africa are ongoing and involve policy transfers in higher education curriculum ...