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Research and development subsidies - report into the £129 million grant funding to BioNTech for the life sciences sector
02 Dec 2024This blog examines the Subsidy Advice Unit (SAU) report into a proposed subsidy by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to BioNTech UK Limited (BioNTech).
Employment Rights Bill: what are the implications for higher education institutions?
02 Dec 2024The Employment Rights Bill proposes significant reforms to employment law, including new day-one rights for workers, limiting the use of zero hours contracts and making it more difficult to refuse flexible working requests.
Fighting fire with fire: what should higher education institutions consider when using AI tools to spot whether students are using AI to write their dissertations?
02 Dec 2024In the 2023/24 academic year, the number of cases of students at UK universities illicitly using AI tools, such as Chat GPT and other large language models to write their dissertations or otherwise help them pass their assessments increased exponentially.
Protecting the interest of students
09 Oct 2024The Office for Students has published consumer rights case reports after the referral of three higher education providers to National Trading Standards over concerns of student contract clauses breaching Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. a
The new reasonable steps duty
09 Oct 2024On 26 October 2024, the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 introduces new sections 40A and 124A into the Equality Act 2010 (EqA).
