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Academics warn of ‘culture of fear’ at pre-eminent Welsh institution amid plans to axe courses and hundreds of jobs

Chinese students are crucial to Thailand’s international education ambitions, but quality concerns pose a risk

Expenses spike despite dwindling student numbers, with signs the gap could widen

Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ‘abusive practices’ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud

Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds

More than half of PhD graduates find jobs outside universities after graduating but students complain programmes are still only set up to help create new professors

Data centre mogul Robin Khuda seeks ‘cohort effect’ with largest-ever gift to Australia’s oldest university

Legal and regulatory issues push some English institutions into taking financial hit of not increasing fees

Social sciences ‘the proverbial canary in the coalmine’ for restrictions in other areas of research, dean warns

Pressure mounts on Welsh government to intervene as Cardiff posts UK sector’s biggest deficit yet

Survey finds NHS bursary is not sufficient to cover living costs, with many trainee medics forced to cut back or take on additional work

European Commission-published Competitiveness Compass raises fears of political interference

Russell Group member says number of roles going yet to be determined, with compulsory departures not on agenda

Peers urge rethink as they brand UK’s high visa and healthcare costs ‘act of national self-harm’

Tax-cutting budget sees modest increases for higher education as India’s growth expected to slow

Lack of cooperation from publishers blamed for failure of transparency service that many hoped could drive down prices

Early data from UniQuest shows a 38 per cent increase in firm acceptances for autumn intake

Prompted by deadly train station collapse, thousands of students are calling for government accountability

Rapidly growing AI tool brushes off questions about Tiananmen Square and spouts Communist Party line on sensitive topics like Taiwan

Draft 2025 budget could be devastating for research, universities and students, academics warn

From cancelled guest lectures to disrupted clinical trials, the damage to US science caused by a grant approval freeze is mounting, but further problems lie ahead

Union says that managers of stricken institution must “think again about cutting jobs and the use of compulsory redundancies”

Earnings gap between university bosses and ordinary workers has quintupled since Australia stopped regulating vice-chancellors’ salaries, analysis finds

Tech platform chief is proponent of locally grown AI talent, as Asian superpower focuses on industry-academia collaboration

Librarians and negotiators insist embattled sector’s finances and technological innovations will help to achieve long-sought reductions in publisher costs

Institution has come under fire for looking to shed around 300 jobs

Ten thousand back call for Antoine Petit to resign as president of French state research organisation

THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year

Highly cited scholars in medicine and life sciences also have papers pulled more often, says Stanford analysis

Former universities minister claims successful providers based overseas keen to invest in sector but have so far been left frustrated

Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage

Institutions with more than 300 students to be subjected to new rules as part of planned government ‘crackdown’ on poor-quality provision

Ombudsman for English and Welsh higher education says options include support fund, insurance scheme or change in legislation, as it announces record haul of complaints

Ucas data confirms big falls in recruitment at some post-92 universities as older institutions took what applicants there were on domestic and international front

Difficulty of dual career, higher student debts and university funding crisis explain why fewer medics are doing research, MRC study finds

In-depth Hepi report promises inside story of last summer’s UK campus protests 

Institutions ‘caught between a rock and hard place’ are attempting wholesale transformations of their operations but those affected claim schemes could be kinder for staff and students

Island may follow likes of UK in mandating three-year residency before qualifying for domestic fee regime

Australian universities and colleges face a ‘difficult’ election but few further rule changes, analyst predicts

‘Anti-woke’ James Tooley back in charge at private institution as ‘serious allegations’ dismissed

Foreign universities entering increasingly saturated market

India-based periodical disciplined by bibliographic group Crossref after sleuths claimed ‘sneaked references’ had been injected into metadata

Government ‘cherry-picked’ ideas with commercial application, despite reviewer warnings against ‘naive’ expectations of windfall profits, scientists say

Successful pharmaceutical and biotech firms linked to the Medical Research Council have landed at least £6 billion in investment since 2008, and more before then, study finds

Regulators vow to push ahead with ‘in-year’ submissions despite damning report on project’s impact on workloads

Employees at Study Group-run centre on University of Sheffield campus to walk out after 36 staff put at risk of redundancy

University to increase staff-student ratios, merge schools and close programmes to ensure it remains ‘viable’

Latest Hesa figures suggest that the fall in the number of EU academics working in British universities has slowed

University becomes latest to announce staff cuts, saying it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies

Measurements, data, facts and ocean health top to-do list of newly anointed science diplomat

British institution set to join join Australian counterparts already operating in special economic zone

Former universities minister attacks ‘embarrassing’ regulator decision, claiming it will worsen sector’s financial woes

New figures suggest political headache for government – and educators – will not disappear any time soon

Poll this week marks final time that graduates of only two universities have been able to vote for dedicated senatorial candidates

Former vice-chancellor says universities needs change in leadership culture to foster greater collaboration

Questions raised about institution’s reputation as it seeks to reduce proportion of self-funded research in bid to plug £20 million black hole

Scientists urge UK to adopt network approach for landmark project bringing public data together

University reform commission announced by Georgian prime minister likely means of tightening political control, scholars warn

Indexed fees and some movement on student maintenance seen as key goals for coming spending review, with economic climate reducing chances of more systemic reform

While majority do see themselves as staff, discipline and stage of PhD likely to influence how candidates perceive their role, researchers say