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Charity says Ucas data adds to case for extending home fee status to displaced applicants

Lower number of universities penalised by government for visa practices, but scholars urge caution

Industrial action threatened for start of 2025-26 academic year if universities do not take action to minimise redundancies

Quarter of social media posts in key markets show negativity towards higher education, analysis finds

Only 42 per cent of students have seen Teaching Excellence Framework ratings for universities they were interested in

While hundreds of academics decry education minister’s intervention, supporters say he acted in researchers’ interests

Pro-Palestine campaigners claim ‘important victory’ but university says interim ruling demonstrates that restrictions do not limit freedom of speech

Regular breaks, mock vivas and introducing an online option among other recommendations made by review that aims to combat ‘gladiatorial approach’

Institutions generally accept budgetary demands to return unspent grants but warn long-term cuts could damage competitiveness

Party’s renewed focus on winning back support of those who have not gone to college provides little incentive to defend higher education from Trumpian attacks, experts say

Statement endorsed by 39 Australian institutions described as both being ‘not robust enough’ and a ‘betrayal’ of staff and students

Almost two thirds of young people in capital participate in higher education, 15 percentage points more than next best region

Country saw demand fall in most major markets last year, with master’s students making up smaller proportion of visas issued, according to new data

Major student recruitment firm sees drop in placements and English language tests after immigration changes in Canada and elsewhere

Edward Peck had already announced he would step down from university role this summer

Sutton Trust warns applicants with disadvantaged upbringings can find application process particularly complex and challenging

Proposal to restrict post-study work rights to those in ‘graduate jobs’ alarms vice-chancellors

Government commission advocates for intervention in downsizing of higher education sector to avoid regional disparity

Vice-chancellor reportedly wrote to staff encouraging them to leave if they did not support university’s new strategy

Universities should prioritise ensuring that assessments are ‘assessing what we mean to assess’ rather than letting conversations be dominated by discussions around cheating

Government announces 2 per cent cut to university budget in efforts to row back public spending

Advocate more judiciously, sector representatives urged, as they demand more money to ‘do our job for the country’

Coalition has departed from usual practice, outlining a comprehensive suite of changes if it regains government

One in four students tell Hepi they use text generated by tools such as ChatGPT in submitted work

Arriving from outside academia means UK Research and Innovation’s new chief executive is more willing to take unorthodox but correct strategic decisions, say scientists

University seeks five-year year injunction against protests over Middle East conflict but faces opposition from union and civil liberties group

Principal warns of ‘radical university-wide actions, which will lead to a smaller staff base’

Shadow minister urges government to investigate reports of attempts to pay money to relatives of university managers

Universities must change their language to survive assault on DEI, says former Trump chief of staff

If doors to opportunity close, ‘it can become a potent political issue very quickly’

Conference also hears that proposed streamline of ARC grant schemes will give early career researchers a ‘leg-up’

Academic spin-outs have risen over the past decade, supported by a network of university-affiliated venture funds

The deadline for most 2023-24 financial accounts was the end of December

Fall in student numbers driven by lower birth rates, with smaller universities tipped to struggle

UK Atomic Energy Authority boss will take over at £9 billion UK research funder in the summer, when Ottoline Leyser steps down

Beijing government body’s affiliation with some Chinese institutions seen as threat by Taiwanese leaders

Strike ballot called at South Yorkshire university, with similar vote also under way at Durham University

Universities can win a rational argument but lose an emotional war, conference hears

‘Real issue’ is whether people think universities give value, says new university leader who accepted lower salary

Vice-chancellors say ‘unsustainable’ model needs fixing but changes must be balanced against goals of increasing access and stopping brain drain

Institutions caught in a ‘perfect storm’ owing to reductions in government spending and international student restrictions

More job cuts likely as deficits mount owing to decreased grant funding and cap on international students

Malaysian institutions continue to attract increasing numbers of students from the region, with Chinese nationals remaining the largest cohort by far

Moves to appoint supervisory boards made up of business and public sector representatives seen as ‘logical step’ in sector development

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hopes quashed that things were improving for badly affected groups

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

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

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

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

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

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