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Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures

Cost-of-living help unveiled for students, staff and graduates, but sector remains all but empty-handed

External team to investigate why financial concerns that have led to more than 600 planned job losses were not raised sooner

Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair

Up to 185 more jobs in the frame, as restructuring of university switches from teaching to operations

Tally of unsubsidised students could reach thousands, representative body warns, after enrolments surpass projections

Survey of UK doctoral examiners reveals disquiet over problematic PhD examiners keen to initiate emotionally charged intellectual exchanges

Institutions taking ‘as long as they like’ over investigations to protect reputations, according to Australian research integrity campaigner

UCU urges management to rule out compulsory redundancies as it stages walkout at institution hit by several waves of restructuring

Bureaucracy fears as new Research England rules push for ‘robust data’ on where quality-related funding is spent

Bridget Phillipson flags ‘wide-scale organised exploitation’ as she announces new measures to combat fraud connected to franchised provision

Governments and institutions launch schemes to attract US talent – but budget and anti-internationalisation policy could get in the way, some fear

Institutions reduce shares in companies after review highlights holding large amounts of equity can supress growth

American applicants help to drive growing international interest in Chinese partnership institutions

Seven-figure salaries needed to attract top talent, universities argue, but staff apprehend ballooning executive remuneration with ‘disbelief and anger’

Fees rising and scholarships disappearing as visa constraints reduce incentive to keep students’ costs low

Institutions still waiting for a budget to be set for financial year amid Javier Milei’s unprecedented austerity drive

High Court judgment preventing protesters from disrupting ceremonies sets ‘dangerous precedent’, say human rights groups

While institution has now implemented this year’s rise, UCU members want it backdated to August

International students drive growth in taught postgraduate qualifications at UK universities

Threats to US-funded research and infrastructure could mean ‘profound implications for Australians’, academy warns

Removal of researcher who had anti-Trump messages on phone prompts European academics to avoid travelling to the US

Cash recovered from alleged money-laundering pays for development of new institution in Islamabad that prime minister hopes will ‘rival Oxford’

Average losses on doctoral training of over 50 per cent seen as ‘underestimate’, with gaps plugged by overseas student fees and quality-related funding

Marketing highlighting exemptions to UK visa rules under scrutiny in Home Office amid warnings that regulations could be extended

Regulator says English sector finances ‘appear to be towards the most pessimistic end’ of predictions, with risks escalating

‘Cultural shift’ needed in universities to better recognise work academics do with local communities, Lords committee hears

Union branch at redundancy-hit institution to stage one-day walkout

Ten university cities expected to participate in strikes ahead of April Senate vote on budget

Government told it can ‘no longer ignore’ growing gender educational attainment gap

Vice-chancellors fear ‘incubator economy’ where innovative firms only scale up overseas

UK needs data on how ‘marginal’ graduates fare in workforce compared with if they didn’t have a degree, argues new report

‘Default target’ of sex questions should be sex at birth, with ‘male’ and ‘female’ the possible answers, says government-commissioned review