ARC grants should ‘buy out teaching time, not cover full wages’

Call for rethink over how funder’s money is used to underwrite professors’ salaries, as overhaul of key schemes continues

Ireland bucks post-Brexit trend as more students head to UK

Country becomes UK’s biggest provider of EU students, thanks to rising interest in studying north of the border

Most universities still use online exams despite cheating fears

Seven in?10 institutions?allow students to take remote tests unsupervised, casting doubt on ‘validity’ of degrees, study finds

Six of Queensland’s seven universities rebound to post surpluses

Apparent recovery owes much to bump in government funding, and may prove short-lived as international earnings tumble

Is the sun setting on blue-sky EU research funding?

Discussions about the shape of the next framework programme, due to begin in 2028, are already under way. But the European Commission’s deafening silence is stoking fears that it wants to refocus...

Australia should avoid being drawn into the US culture war over EDI

The country tends to shun the extremes and our access policies have generally helped harness talent and to build a cohesive society, says Merlin Crossley

Trump opens review of Harvard’s grants and contracts

Federal law could stop Trump dismantling education department

Nobelists back call for UK to recruit US scientists fleeing Trump

UK research funders and philanthropists must step up efforts to incentivise disaffected academics to cross Atlantic, says Venki Ramakrishnan

Joint security centre launched to combat university cyberattacks

‘Problematic’ lack of skills and knowledge over online security prompts move to create shared service

Skills England faces ‘uphill struggle’ to be heard, says Hepi

Warnings lack of independence could stifle new government body as it attempts to unite sector to tackle skills gaps

Number of Indian students abroad plummets after policy ‘turmoil’

All four major English-speaking study destinations hit as students increasingly look for other options, according to new government figures

The Fulbright freeze is immoral and self-destructive

The program has always followed US foreign policy. Leaving people in the lurch is an incomprehensible new frontier, say Marisa Lally and Gerardo Blanco

Trade war squeezes science out of Canadian election campaign

While newcomer and frontrunner Mark Carney might be expected to back innovation funding, academics do not expect a loosening of student migration rules any time soon

PhD students who complain about supervisors ‘never hear outcome’

‘A poor communicator who ghosts me’: disaffected research students and supervisors have similar grievances about each other, survey reveals