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Australian visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession

Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge 

Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms

Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says

In another edition of gloomy research indicators, major NSF tally finds companies nearing the basic science spending of the federal government

Professor leading Migration Advisory Committee warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered

Commission’s move following Percy affair provoking internal controversy, source claims

Efforts to recruit students from across the Taiwan Strait seen as attempt to boost sovereignty claim

Scientific method can inform an inclusiveness agenda that ‘works’, says former Blair adviser

Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector

Science secretary concedes she could have written to agency ‘in confidence’ rather than tweeting concerns about Israel-Gaza views among EDI group

In fiscal 2025 budget plan constrained by his shutdown concession, president again seeks free-college deal while letting science agencies struggle

Baroness Shafik’s appearance before committee, in expected repeat of grilling that led to Harvard and Penn departures, described as not ‘voluntary’

Plans to introduce 20 per cent ‘baseline’ for research time will harm university’s standing in academia and beyond, warns critic

Author of controversial book and journal paper takes up one-year ‘presidential scholar’ post after institutional takeover by allies of Ron DeSantis

In global survey, barely one in 10 academic leaders say they feel well prepared to address the challenges of providing competitive compensation

Amendments threaten jail term of up to five years without defining ‘reasonable cause’ exemption

Rather than ‘pre-emptively complying’ with Canberra’s stance on China, universities should contribute to a ‘nuanced’ debate

Sinn Féin proposes bill in Irish Dáil that would make it an offence for landlords to seek sex in exchange for rental housing

After a career spent switching between academia and the White House, Joseph Nye admits that returning to Harvard left him feeling flat

Australian institutions say new research rules are not to blame as registration delays stretch on

Upgraded institutions seen as a way to meet talent demands in the Greater Bay Area

Funder keen to reconvene advisory group, but professor says he wants reassurance that lessons have been learned from controversial investigation

As pressure builds for the University of Idaho to reconsider buying the University of Phoenix, a similar previous deal a thousand miles to the south finds mounting scrutiny

Commentators under fire for doing their job should remember their ‘silent’ supporters, says author of harassment survival guide

Deal ‘an important step in PeerJ’s evolution’, co-founders say

Minister argues €900 million will have limited impact on science, but sector leaders are unconvinced

Year after a strong boost, agency’s gamble on translational division gets knocked down as part of wider election-year retreat by Congress from federal science spending

Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union 

Jisc review finds UK ahead of global average on open access, but questions whether purportedly temporary measures are proving effective at driving change

University lifts possibility of compulsory redundancies ahead of planned six-day walkout

Academic freedom is particularly at risk in countries with pronounced social and political polarisation, report says

Hepi report flags concerns over growth and quality of UK pre-degree programmes, but says across-the-board fee cut would be poor solution

Politicians are increasingly pushing for the facilitation of dual-use research, but university leaders are unsure

Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change anything?

Chinese institution says it wants to nurture ‘master-level strategic scientists’

Sector leaders express frustration as chancellor praises universities, but offers little additional money

Baroness Foster of Oxton falsely alleged that Oxford PhD student Melika Gorgianeh had displayed ‘disgusting antisemitic symbols’

UCU says minister ‘does not retain the confidence of the academic community, nor is she upholding good standards of professional conduct’

University known for politics, piety and scandal penalised for longstanding pattern of hiding reports of sexual abuses and other community safety concerns

While new Australian data identify regional universities as the most inequitable payers, experts highlight the ‘different conditions and challenges’

Leadership alliances and equity focus set to battle political interference and disillusion with candidates after strong gain in previous presidential poll

Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case

Heriot-Watt researcher Kate Sang says Michelle Donelan ‘made a cheap political point at my expense and caused serious damage to my reputation’

Michelle Donelan faces calls to apologise as equality committee at centre of Gaza free speech row set to reconvene

President Hugh Brady says new structures will provide ‘sandbox’ for interdisciplinary thinking and ‘shop window’ for industry engagement

Ewan McGaughey says ‘it’s not over’ after narrowly missing out on unseating incumbent Jo Grady

Thousands walk out, arguing that government should address low pay and poor working conditions before going ahead

Former universities minister warns that Conservatives’ ‘talking down’ of higher education sector will hit UK economy

Twenty-three UK universities have gaps larger than 20 percentage points between proportion of academics overall who are female and their share of professoriate

While ministers say they have fixed predecessors’ visa processing delays, published data suggests otherwise

Forced by DeSantis order, flagship fires officials but signals dissent and outlines plans to try hiring them back

Gianluca Grimalda says too many scientists are ‘unaware or not prepared to take action’ when it comes to addressing the impact of work travel on climate

Students feeling lonely and ‘underwhelmed’ by university experience, warns UPP Foundation report based on survey and focus groups

Companies’ lack of capacity to absorb ideas is big part of picture, says author on paper touted as evidence for economic failure of academic research

Reproducibility network aims to support researchers to share science openly, improving its applications and public support

Norwegian Medical Association says failure to recognise Danish training breaches European Economic Area law

Incumbent run close by King’s College London professor Ewan McGaughey in poll

Care needed to avoid scaring off doctoral students and burying officials in paperwork, senators hear

Rectors call for budget increases and wage rises for staff or institutions will soon be unable to function