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20 March

Social mobility work should be ‘incentivised’ amid funding strain

20 March

UEA staff to strike over plans to cut more than 150 jobs

20 March

Merging 11,000 staff into a brand new structure requires a delicate dance

We are transferring staff to the new Adelaide University bit by bit. Soon we will be the only ones left in the legacy institutions, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj

By David Lloyd

21 March

Cricket player taking a shot, with fountain pen, illustrating swinging your bat if bored by defensive academic writing conventions.

Bored by defensive academic writing conventions? Then swing your bat

20 March

Money washing down the drain, symbolising the diminishing graduate premium

The UK fails students by not facing up to diminishing graduate returns

20 March

International ranking 2025: Hong Kong extends its lead

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

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Africa Universities Summit 2025

18 March - 20 March 2025

Kigali, Rwanda

How will AI reshape academic employment?

By Sean Porter

Katrina Armstrong: Will Columbia’s president stand up to Trump?

By Josh Moody

20 March

International enrolment’s precarious moment in US

By Liam Knox

19 March

Resignations and rows with dean roil Chapel Hill civics school

By Ryan Quinn

18 March

‘Palpable fear’ hangs over international students in US

By Liam Knox

18 March

‘Increased risk’ of market exit after £3.4 billion losses – OfS

20 March

Social mobility work should be ‘incentivised’ amid funding strain

20 March

UEA staff to strike over plans to cut more than 150 jobs

20 March

Dutch universities in ‘relay strike’ protests against budget cuts

By Emily Dixon

20 March

International ranking 2025: Hong Kong extends its lead

19 March

Cardiff green-lights Kazakhstan campus despite job cuts at home

By Helen Packer

17 March

‘Sweeping’ university reforms planned as Vietnam plays ‘catch up’

By Helen Packer

15 March

‘Missing’ Chinese scholar back in Japan after unexplained absence

By Helen Packer

14 March

Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from Trump edicts’

19 March

Domestic student enrolments on the rise in Australia

18 March

ARC grants overhaul ‘traps early career researchers in catch-22’

17 March

Australian visa applications pulled as housing approvals rise

14 March

News

‘Increased risk’ of market exit after £3.4 billion losses – OfS

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

20 March

Social mobility work should be ‘incentivised’ amid funding strain

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

20 March

UEA staff to strike over plans to cut more than 150 jobs

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

20 March

‘Minister for men’ mooted as 500,000 boys miss out on university

20 March

HE participation above 30 per cent ‘squeezes graduate premium’

20 March

Dutch universities in ‘relay strike’ protests against budget cuts

By Emily Dixon

20 March

Start-ups ‘will quit UK if campuses not funded to support them’

By Chris Havergal

20 March

Insolvency ‘a real possibility’ for Dundee despite bailout

19 March

‘Widespread loss’ of sex data in gender question confusion

By Jack Grove

19 March

Job fears grow as Research England models £100 million QR cut

By Jack Grove

19 March

Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from Trump edicts’

19 March

Crick scientist-turned-Labour MP on supporting academic mothers

By Jack Grove

19 March

Bored by defensive academic writing conventions? Then swing your bat

While not everyone has a flair for it, popular writing can boost audience, income and professional enjoyment. But no silly titles please, says Lincoln Allison

20 March

The letters QR (for quality related funding), with a test tube pouring out liquid forming part of the Q

Does the UK really need a dual-support system for research?

The value of the UK’s research block grants has fallen significantly since 2010, as policymakers have focused funding upticks on projects with compelling narratives. And in a tough financial climate, there are widespread fears that the trend could continue. Jack Grove examines what would be lost if it does

Elon Musk, head of DOGE, holds a chainsaw during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on 20 February 2025

Trump’s assault on US universities: five views from the chainsaw’s teeth

The administration’s hostile edicts on DEI and science funding are sending shock waves through the US’ world-leading higher education system. Here, we present five takes on what is unfolding

Opinion

By David Lloyd

Merging 11,000 staff into a brand new structure requires a delicate dance

We are transferring staff to the new Adelaide University bit by bit. Soon we will be the only ones left in the legacy institutions, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj

21 March

A graphic of a complex science experiment, symbolising FP10

The European Commission must back down over its research funding plans

Ministers and MEPs are right to insist that FP10 should focus on much more than just immediate economic priorities, says Jan Palmowski

The UK fails students by not facing up to diminishing graduate returns

Averages aren’t enough. We need to know when HE expansion causes the marginal premium to disappear. It was probably long ago, says Paul Wiltshire

Ten-year budgets can boost national R&D aims – and reduce precarity

By Grace Gottlieb

18 March

US anti-terror legislation must not be weaponised against libraries

By Caroline Ball

17 March

Indian universities must stop silencing and ignoring their students

By Eldho Mathews

14 March

Trump’s executive order does not give legal authority to end DEI

By Geraldine Van Bueren

13 March

World policy

The demise of India’s journal whitelist highlights regulatory challenges

The recent arrest of accreditation council members only underlines that competence of regulation is as much of an issue as its degree, says Pushkar

Editor’s pick

Depressed mechanics in the US, in front of an American flag

If Republicans really want to help their voters, they should boost HE

Raging against the ‘woke elites’ running US universities won’t help the millions of Americans who lack decent, family-sustaining jobs, says John Austin

PhD students should think like entrepreneurs

A scholar’s job is not just to learn – it’s to create. And that requires a completely different skill set from consuming it, says Ilana Horwitz

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Emma Johnston: Australian HE must resist and adapt to external shocks

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

10 March

Penn State president shares the ABC of student success

Neeli Bendapudi on being an outsider and a trailblazer, students as customers and nurturing the world’s largest alumni network

By Ellie Bothwell

5 March

Jane Norman, University of Nottingham vice-chancellor, with an aerial shot of the Jubilee campus in the background.

End of Nottingham’s expansive era leaves new v-c taking stock

Jane Norman eyes more focused approach for university after decades of rapid growth, with new financial paradigm forcing ‘hard conversations’