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Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Former department store transformed into an institution focused on climate, energy, digitalisation and security

Platform previously accused of sending ‘threatening’ tweets shuttered by Elsevier as it ‘searches for new solutions’

Multi-institution model seen as way of reducing risk of transnational education, but few universities publicly willing to commit so far

Multiple calls to extend Atec’s remit, as the cost of arts degrees edges past A$54K

New president of Canada’s largest university hails renewed sense of purpose as nation takes leading role on world stage

Rapid university expansion and rigid career structures leaving universities struggling to recruit, scholars warn

Policies and procedures at all universities to be investigated following ‘systemic’ issues that led to undergraduate wrongly being told he had failed course

Cost-cutting measures impacting student experience, finds OfS polling, with increased class sizes and reduced access to facilities among issues raised

Reduction in funding by Science and Technology Facilities Council would be ‘most drastic’ cut to curiosity-driven science ‘in a generation’ warn scientific leaders

Venture reflects imperatives to boost offshore efforts and engage more with region

Most low-performing English students will not repay loans, argues campaigner, who says more needs to be done to educate people about system

Calls for more support for people with experience of prison to access higher education as experts warn programmes being hampered by staff shortages

Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

Mandatory edits of research findings a ‘blind spot’ in integrity debate, says scholar who experienced government agency ‘interference’

Further walkouts planned as part of internal row that has seen six weeks of disruption in past year alone

Financially troubled institutions pushed further into the red, with Aberdeen, Robert Gordon and Sheffield Hallam also losing money

Resignation follows series of scandals involving academics at the leading institution

Rule changes seen as way of improving safety while avoiding billions of dollars being wasted on ‘unnecessary compliance costs’

Institutions face mounting pressures as prime minister Sanae Takaichi takes country to the polls in search of direct mandate

Ucas January data show specialist institutions losing out as higher tariffs continue to grow, with proportion of ‘commuter students’ reaching nearly half

Council merely doing preparatory work, institution insists, after politician decries ‘historical revisionism’

Exclusions from government funding pots exacerbating a challenging financial climate for creative institutions, which say talent pipeline for Labour’s priority sector at risk of being jeopardised

Controversial political scientist to represent right-wing party in Gorton and Denton by-election, after leaving university post to become GB News presenter

Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher

UK universities’ recruitment from India, China and Nigeria falls after policy changes, with student numbers now well below peak of a few years ago

Regional Australian university joins nine others in establishing South Asian outpost, promising revenue will support New South Wales heartland

Plaid Cymru’s education spokesperson discusses plan to reverse decline in student numbers as nationalist party targets victory in upcoming elections

Scholars criticise ‘crude’ exercise as Middle Eastern country tops list of donors after US institutions forced to disclose foreign funds

International partners step up offers of help as editors battle power cuts, brain drain and ongoing uncertainties of conflict to keep research publishing alive

New flagship institution intended to rival region’s best faces lengthy delays as highly ambitious plans to create sustainable city in the desert unravel

Early enthusiasm for compulsory datasets has given way to ‘more qualified views’ on compliance, finds long-running survey

University to adopt tests used by other leading institutions, spelling end to complex system of internally administered exams