UK offshore enrolment now over half-million mark UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year By Chris Havergal 17 November
Women outnumber men on UK PhDs for first time Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers By Patrick Jack 17 November
Leadership & Management Summit: sector ‘must lead’ on managing scientific exchange Don’t wait for governments to act, say university leaders By Patrick Jack 17 November
THE Campus Live UK&IE: loans ‘unlikely to resurrect adult education’ Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect By Tom Williams 16 November
THE Campus Live UK&IE: ‘look harder’ on efficiency, UUK president urges Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding By John Morgan 16 November
THE Campus Live UK&IE: minister criticises QAA’s ‘decolonisation nonsense’ Latest DfE appointee tells event he does not want the policy debate ‘to be about Oxbridge, Oxbridge, Oxbridge’ By John Morgan 16 November
The Autumn Statement must not cut the UK’s R&D budget If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities – not the other way round, says Ian Walker By Ian Walker 16 November
Elsevier and Springer Nature sit out Plan S cost comparison tool Dozens of publishers have disclosed cost data as part of next stage of European-led open access push but ‘big two’ are absent By Jack Grove 16 November
Vice-chancellor fears drop in UK PhD student recruitment Experts warn shrinking pool of postgraduate researchers would be ‘pretty disastrous’ By Patrick Jack 16 November
Germans enjoy ‘ground-breaking’ budgets despite bleak outlook Consensus with regions and reversals by parliament’s budget committee help keep coalition promises By Ben Upton 16 November
Why do university IT systems drive staff round the bend? Edinburgh’s finance chaos exposes deeper problems with the tools institutions rely on to function day-to-day By Tom Williams 16 November
UK students ‘at sharp end’ of cost-of-living crisis National Union of Students urges government to provide support in autumn statement as students slash spending on food and heating to get by By Tom Williams 16 November