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January 31, 7:24 AM
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The AI Challenge: How college faculty assess the present and future of higher education in the age of AI

The AI Challenge: How college faculty assess the present and future of higher education in the age of AI | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
National Survey: 95% of College Faculty Fear Student Overreliance on AI and Diminished Critical Thinking Among Learners Who Use Generative AI Tools Full report | Charts | Methodology an
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January 27, 3:53 AM
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Making the 3Es as easy as A, B, C | Advance HE

Miri Firth, co-editor, introduces our 2026 Case Study Compendium, 'Making the 3Es as easy as A, B, C' which "brings together inspiring case studies from universities that are redefining what the 3Es, Employability, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, mean in practice."
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January 21, 3:46 AM
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‘The best year’/‘I struggled with everything’: Widening participation experiences of pandemic online learning

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January 20, 3:53 AM
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The UK's International Education Strategy 2026

The UK's International Education Strategy 2026 | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Strategy setting out the government’s plans for UK international education and how it will support the sector access global opportunities.
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January 15, 4:03 AM
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GenAI in Higher Education Redefining Teaching and Learning Sam Illingworth (Author) , Rachel Forsyth (Author)

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January 12, 6:35 AM
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ORCID 2030: Advancing the Future of Research

ORCID 2030: Advancing the Future of Research | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
ORCID's new strategic plan introduces five Strategic Themes that will guide our work over the next four years.
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December 23, 2025 8:20 AM
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Open Humanities Press– Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University

Open Humanities Press– Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
A scholar led open access publishing collective
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December 18, 2025 3:15 AM
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The Erasmus+ programme

The Erasmus+ programme | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Grant funding for international placements and partnership projects for organisations working in education, training, youth and sport.
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December 16, 2025 4:13 AM
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Disability equality in higher education requires a joined-up and co-created approach

Disability equality in higher education requires a joined-up and co-created approach | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Suanne Gibson, Francesca Peruzzo and Zeta Williams-Brown argue that the barriers faced by disabled students need to be understood as part of an ecosystem rather than one-off roadblocks Suanne Gibson, Francesca Peruzzo and Zeta Williams-Brown argue that the barriers faced by disabled students need to be understood as part of an ecosystem rather than one-off roadblocks
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December 11, 2025 3:41 AM
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Academic freedom: Central to high quality research - Office for Students

Academic freedom: Central to high quality research - Office for Students | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Arif Ahmed talks about the importance of academic freedom in the higher education sector as the UK funding bodies take the next step towards REF 2029.
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December 9, 2025 3:13 AM
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University Lands Part One: State of the sector's land

University Lands Part One: State of the sector's land | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
In Part One of University Lands: Mapping risks and opportunities for the UK HE sector, we explore the state of the UK HE sector’s land.
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December 4, 2025 3:24 AM
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Strong support for ethical reform of university governance

Strong support for ethical reform of university governance | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
New research suggests there is strong backing for a university governance Code that addresses power imbalances and over-financialisation. This is the first of two reports that HEPI is publishing on university governance in the run-up to Christmas. The authors of both reports will feature at a free webinar on governance issues on Thursday, 11 December 2025 from […]
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December 2, 2025 11:50 AM
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2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition AI and learning

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition AI and learning | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envision
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January 30, 5:03 AM
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Students’ perspectives on higher education changing in response to financial challenges - Office for Students

Students’ perspectives on higher education changing in response to financial challenges - Office for Students | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
We commissioned exploratory research to better understand students’ perceptions of changes to their higher education experience as their institutions respond to financial challenges. Suzanne Carrie explores some of the emerging findings.
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January 21, 3:50 AM
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Future avenues for createch: insights and recommendations – UKRI

Future avenues for createch: insights and recommendations – UKRI | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
This report provides recommendations following a series of workshops and is intended to inform policy development to maximise the growth potential of createch.
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January 21, 3:43 AM
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ifs Annual report on education spending in England: 2025–26

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January 16, 5:30 AM
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Proportion of first class degrees falls for third consecutive year, but nearly 40 per cent of top grades cannot be explained by statistical modelling - Office for Students

Proportion of first class degrees falls for third consecutive year, but nearly 40 per cent of top grades cannot be explained by statistical modelling - Office for Students | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Building upon its recently released sector data on how degree classifications have changed over time, new analysis from the OfS shows the proportion of top grades awarded by institutions has fallen after considerable increases in recent years.
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January 15, 4:00 AM
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Are students still 'woke'?

Are students still 'woke'? | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
In a new poll on a range of free speech issues, 35% of full-time undergraduate students say they Reform UK ‘should be banned from speaking at events held at higher education institutions’. The new opinion poll, which was conducted by Savanta for the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), took place in November 2025 and generally […]
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January 8, 3:03 AM
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Universities UK Our response to the CUC review of higher education governance.

Universities UK Our response to the CUC review of higher education governance. | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
We have responded to the CUC review of higher education governance.
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December 18, 2025 3:16 AM
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Explainer: UKRI budget allocations – UKRI

Explainer: UKRI budget allocations – UKRI | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Detailed breakdowns of UKRI budget allocations for the financial years 2025 to 2026, 2026 to 2027, 2027 to 2028, 2028 to 2029 and 2029 to 2030.
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December 17, 2025 3:36 AM
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Reverse decline in research workforce to futureproof the NHS, universities urge

The clinical academic workforce has “not kept pace with NHS expansion,” threatening the delivery of the NHS 10-year health plan and other government aspirations, according to a new briefing from the Russell Group. The mission group makes a number of recommendations for strengthening clinical academic careers, including embedding protected research time in clinical roles and targeted regional investment to address the uneven distribution of research activity.

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December 16, 2025 4:12 AM
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More university students choosing to study artificial intelligence whilst languages are in decline, new open data tool shows

HESA has published a dashboard showing changes in subject uptake across the UK since 2012–13, with filters showing domicile and level of study. Though based on previously published 2023–24 data, this presentation includes new demographic splits

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December 11, 2025 3:40 AM
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More school leavers living at home for university and college study | UCAS

More school leavers living at home for university and college study | UCAS | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
UCAS’ end of cycle data for 2025, published today, shows 89,510 UK 18-year-olds who secured a place this autumn said they intended to live at home, compared to 83,705 last year (+7%). These figures, published for the first time by UCAS, mean that 31% of UK 18-year-old accepted applicants indicated...
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December 8, 2025 3:46 AM
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Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?

Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge? | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education
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December 3, 2025 3:26 AM
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Civic 2:0 – LPIP

Civic 2:0 – LPIP | Higher education news for libraries and librarians | Scoop.it
Civic 2:0 is a programme to engage national and regional policymakers in the economic and social role higher education institutions play in their towns, cities and regions.
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