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China¡¯s neighbours benefit in list of the world¡¯s most international universities, as giant expands its network

Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ¡®environmental justice¡¯, ¡®gender ideology¡¯ and China links

Loss of almost 8 per cent of mainstream quality-related funding feared amid concerns that Spring Statement will deepen sector funding crisis

Tropical disease researcher and parliamentarian Lauren Sullivan talks about difficulties of returning to the lab after a career break, juggling family, science and politics, and why Dundee¡¯s life science sector must be supported

Union members hold Parliament rally urging ministers to bail out sector

Students face more ¡®formulaic¡¯ and automated tests, as staff are left unable to cope with growing class sizes

Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ¡®safer¡¯ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world

Staff in their late fifties offered voluntary severance may feel that they have no choice but to accept, but it could cost them thousands of pounds in pension payments

Cash-strapped institution confirms it will not be investing upfront in new Central Asian outpost

Union fears as many as 300 jobs could go at Yorkshire university, plus courses in chemistry and film and television

Board minutes show research council leaders assessing options including ¡®NHS Catapult¡¯ as they seek to meet government priorities

Reforms to boost opportunities for those just starting out could have the opposite effect, observers warn

Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear

Students describe increased ¡®anti-immigrant sentiment¡¯ as far-right party becomes significant force in German parliament

New education plan aims to create four city hubs and expand enrolment as youth population swells

Extra ?10 million in funding made available to universities such as Dundee to ¡®navigate current financial challenges¡¯

Professional services staff most affected in move unions warn will ¡®make life worse for students¡¯

Chinese literature and linguistics professor returns to university after disappearing during a trip back to China in 2023

Education committee announces investigation into state of funding in the sector and its impact on staff and students

Changes to science policy organisation decried as political interference after long-standing tensions

Students spiked their visa paperwork to bolster their chances next time around, new data suggests

Adult Human Female directors Deirdre O¡¯Neill and Michael Wayne claim union treated them unfairly in wake of cancelled Edinburgh showings

Long-running inquiry accused of ¡®lack of transparency as to who and what is being investigated¡¯

Organisers claim Irish government has ¡®failed¡¯ to address endowment requests

Regulator heavily criticised for pausing much of its work to focus on finances announces ¡®staggered¡¯ restart in applications

New research links anti-pluralist leaders with declining academic freedom, warning of ¡®dire consequences¡¯ for academia

New tertiary regulator outlines wider vision in strategic plan as it seeks to get to grips with scale of cuts across sector

Staff and politicians fear ¡®nothing is safe¡¯ at Scottish university looking to cut more than 600 jobs

UK¡¯s research-intensive universities urge increase in value of Higher Education Innovation Fund and creation of new ¡®Spark fund¡¯

Proposal follows change in law to allow establishment of foreign university outposts in Mediterranean country

Teqsa¡¯s request for extra clout to tackle ¡®systemic¡¯ governance failures deemed too much by some, too little and late by others

ScienceDirect innovation allows academics to interrogate articles and compare experiments

Government drive to boost research commercialisation struggles to get off the ground at public universities

Sector haul neared ?800 million last year but close to half of that went to just two universities

Improved grant success in UK regions reverses funding dominance of London and broader south-east, although disparities remain, says study

Rise of robot-written summaries should push publishers to articulate value and impact of research more clearly, argues Oxford University Press director

Largest cuts yet in UK higher education¡¯s year of redundancies accompanied by promise of external investigation into ¡®what went wrong¡¯

Student recruitment company warns reintroduction of travel bans would damage perception of US as ¡®welcoming¡¯ country

Australian east coast campuses emerge from lockdown after wayward storm pulled its punches

Recording gender identity but not sex perpetuates historical exclusion of women from research, paper argues

Passing five-figure milestone would only involve a small monetary rise but could it change the psychology of the debate around higher education?

Regulator ¡®looking forward to getting on with it¡¯ after key interventions delayed by political wrangling

Researchers could struggle to find alternative employment if their previous employers have REF submission rights on their work to date, English scholars warn

Education minister concedes to doctors¡¯ demands after year-long feud

News editor steps up following appointment of John Gill as company chief executive

Professor claims harassment has become ¡®entrenched and normalised¡¯ in some departments

Figures suggest demand may have risen after Donald Trump¡¯s election in November

Lack of campus visits by Patrick Vallance does not reflect his extensive communication with higher education sector, says science department

Provincial government also removes academics from expedited immigration process, raising fears over recruitment

Communing with long-term residents is vital to overseas learners¡¯ well-being but can leave them feeling more isolated than ever

Ecologist to take over from Sally Mapstone in aftermath of key government spending review

Leader of Welsh institution, already under pressure over massive job cuts, claims words were ¡®grossly misinterpreted¡¯

Academics warn that top-level power struggle contributes to low enrolment in state institutions

University and government projects relied heavily on American funding put on hold by Donald Trump

New chair with long history in higher education welcomed by universities but Office for Students told it still has work to do to address long-running grievances

Yale University joins several other leading research institutions in pausing hiring or spending

Inflation-busting rise demanded despite thousands of job cuts across sector, and as University and College Union¡¯s own staff vote to strike again

Experts concede shortcomings in the oversight of universities but question whether Teqsa is best placed to resolve them

Institutions asked to provide interim financial returns amid rising tide of redundancies

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has threatened to strip the school of its accreditation