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How Many Postgraduates, and How Many Staff to Supervise Them? (2026)
Two free Eurostat tables give you the supervision denominator every business case needs. They also disagree with each other about which country is under-resourced — and that disagreement is the most useful thing in the data.
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Which of Your University’s AI Tools Is a High-Risk AI System? (2026)
Annex III point 3 of the AI Act names four education use cases, and the obligations attached to them started applying on 2 August 2026. Six tool categories scored against the classification test — and the one where the honest answer is that it is contested.
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Your Deposit Desk Is Holding Degrees for Metadata
The examiners passed it. The deposit desk sent it back because the abstract page field order is wrong and the file is not PDF/A-1. That return does not cost staff hours — it moves a conferral date, and conferral dates carry visas, job offers and funding end dates.
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What an Institutional Licence Should Actually Buy You — and What to Refuse to Pay For
The licence fee is the part of the cost you can see. Seat definitions, true-up clauses, integration effort and the exit position decide the rest — and a free departmental pilot answers more of them than a tender does.
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Your Supervisors Are Spending Review Time on Formatting, Not Argument
The scarcest resource in your graduate school is the attention of experienced researchers, and a large share of it is being consumed by inconsistent references and broken headings. That is a solvable problem, and it does not require hiring anyone.
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How to Respond When an Edtech Vendor Loses Your Students’ Work (2026)
Your processor had the incident; you have the notification duty. Ten steps from the vendor’s email to the regulator’s file, with the owner and artefact for each — and the 72-hour clock that starts when you become aware, not when you finish investigating.
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How Many Doctoral Theses Are Produced Each Year? A Free Queryable Count, and What It Covers
The OpenAIRE Graph indexes 3,142,531 doctoral theses and answers a country-level query in one unauthenticated HTTP call. Here are the current figures for five countries, the coverage ratio measured against Germany’s official count, and the three limits to state whenever you cite them.
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You Already Licensed a General-Purpose AI Assistant. Do You Still Need an Academic Writing Platform?
Comparison table first. The decisive criterion is what the assistant is grounded on — a general-purpose assistant grounds on your own tenant plus web search, which is the wrong corpus for a thesis and cannot verify a reference against the scholarly record.
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Graduate Completion and Attrition Data: Where It Comes From, and Why It Is Not Official Statistics
The definitive US graduate enrolment source is a membership survey, and the best-known doctoral completion evidence came from a time-limited grant project rather than a recurring series. A source map for anyone building a business case on completion.
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Academic Integrity Violation Statistics: Why the Number You Have Measures Enforcement, Not Misconduct
There is no sector-wide dataset of integrity cases, and the institution-level series you do have is generated by your own detection effort. What a case count can and cannot support in a governance paper, and how to build a denominator that survives challenge.