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Repeat of falls in enrolments seen during Republican’s first presidency will allow UK to ‘get its mojo back’ in 2025, British Council predicts

UK universities must end use of year-long contracts that keep researchers in ‘perpetual limbo’, says union-led manifesto

Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds

University Grants Commission's move to hand power to universities to judge journal quality faces resistance from research watchdogs

Students ‘left in limbo’ by Chichester’s decision to make pioneering black professor redundant

Proposal to merge maths and computer science at under-fire institution risks damaging one of its ‘crown jewels’, says open letter

Hopes quashed that things were improving for badly affected groups

‘Real challenges only now emerging,’ says John Cater in paper looking back over decades-long university career

City campuses have not delivered institutions an international education bonanza, but Federation hopes its new site will support a new model of cooperative education

Lecturers fear rising staff-student ratios will exacerbate ‘gulf’ between elite institutions and the rest, and create unmanageable workloads

Universities looking to lose nearly 300 roles between them as financial challenges take their toll

UCU members clash over how to respond to wave of job cuts, with decision on whether to take industrial action over pay imminent

Report by former prime minister’s institute also urges new UKRI leadership to oversee urgent changes to overcome ‘patchy’ adoption of AI in research community

Many asylum applicants began their journeys as students before Australia’s visas were overhauled almost a decade ago, new figures suggest

Rectors want more flexibility over rules that mandate international researchers and teaching staff to learn Norwegian

Indian Institutes of Management need stronger PhD pipeline and ability to match international salaries, says sector leader

Money from Welsh government to be used primarily for estates maintenance and digital projects

About 800 Nepali students at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology report being asked to leave institution following protests

Cuts to library budgets of up to 30 per cent have seen journal subscriptions cancelled and opening hours slashed, says librarians’ association

New partnership of Open Research Europe with national research funders could boost interest in the platform, experts say

Growing influence of Nigel Farage’s party could spell trouble for universities seeking to protect rights of international students

Domestic postgraduate provision looms as an alternative to out-of-favour international education, but it’s a tough market with questionable returns

Campuses quiet despite slew of executive orders attacking higher education

Never much of a vote-winner, higher education now risks the burden of being branded a vote-loser for parties seen as too soft on the sector

Lack of transparency over how excellence-based allocations are spent makes them vulnerable as Russell Group makes case for flexible research funding

Some urge ministers to aim for 1 million enrolments from overseas, but sector divided over whether revised goal would be a good thing

Researchers asked participants to stick pins in ‘stereotypical scientist’ to establish levels of aggression

‘Survival guide’ aims to tackle ‘age-old binary that permeates the sector’

Academics at Liverpool say ‘unexpected’ announcement has left people ‘shocked’

Controversial department temporarily loses ability to see private loan information after what has been described as ‘one of the biggest data hacks in US history’

Employment prospects the main motivation for half of students with satisfaction levels dented by high fees and low contact hours

University latest passion project for ex-politician who specialises in ‘institutions that are worth keeping’

‘No academic friend of mine is not deeply worried about this,’ says scholar