The number of disclosures made to the University’s Report and Support service in the 2023–24 academic year rose for the third year running, a new report has shown. Released on 4 December, the University of Warwick’s annual report of the Report and Support service has shown that 597 disclosures were...
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The first pro vice-chancellor for artificial intelligence, Shushma Patel, has been appointed in the UK at De Montfort University. The adoption of a senior university leader seems to represent a broader trend in academia which favours the integration of AI into university curriculums. Professor Patel has made it clear: “AI...
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Assessment systems at Oxford and Cambridge may disadvantage female students who are more risk averse and can suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS), a report has suggested. The research, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), found that female students are less likely to achieve first-class degrees at the Universities...
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Universities have come under fire from the leading candidates in the race to succeed Rishi Sunak as Leader of the Conservative Party. Both Kemi Badenoch, the Shadow Business Secretary, and Robert Jenrick, the former Immigration Minister, have criticised British universities during the contest, which ends on 2 November. Ms Badenoch,...
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The fate of the Warwick Conservative Association is once again in doubt after the introduction of a motion calling for a vote on its dissolution. A motion submitted to the All Student Vote (ASV) by campaign group Disband the Warwick Tories has sought to force Warwick’s Students’ Union (SU) to...
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Britain’s graduates are set to be leaving universities facing the toughest job market in years, with fewer openings, greater competition, and lower wages seeing graduate salaries falling in real terms. An Institute of Student Employers’ (ISE) survey this year has shown the median salary reported for graduates is currently £32,000....
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Pro-Palestine protests have echoed throughout the Ivy Leagues in the US, with calls for condemnation trickling down from Congress and the White House. Presidents of three of the nation’s top universities are facing allegations for evading lines of questioning in a congressional hearing on whether calls for the genocide of...
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‘Women, Life, Freedom,’ is a chant that has rippled throughout Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
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