University funding/finances

UCU figures on job cut plans in 2017 reveal scholars’ vulnerability in wake of Brexit and TEF

British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns

UCU attacks plans to cut 171 posts, but university denies Brexit 'the reason'

Students and academics are flocking to other states as funding impasse approaches two years

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president’s election could exact the heaviest toll on higher education, says Matthew Hartley

Proposals to introduce tuition fees in Finland met with resistance

Support for medical science and the humanities will increase under 2017 budget deal

Leading universities could widen access without harming academic standards or budgets, report says

Government warned against further reductions in sector funding in upcoming budget

Some research-intensive universities grew value of collaborations by more than 20 per cent in 2015-16

As the country succeeds in attracting even more students from overseas, a mixture of demographics, ‘soft power’ concerns and local politics help explain its policy

Government concessions needed ‘if it is not to lose its bill’, senior Labour peer warns

Sir Keith Burnett returns from Australia with some astute observations on two far-from-perfect higher education systems

Nearly a million households expected to benefit from deal covering SUNY and CUNY systems 

Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions’ abilities to compete

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia

The decline of a once-lucrative indoor market shows how job losses at Heriot-Watt could signal big trouble ahead for the sector, says Helga Drummond

Next Universities Australia chair sees big role for universities in shift to post-industrial society

Two-thirds of funding over past three years went to just 20 institutions 

Colorado’s excise tax set to raise millions of dollars to support college access

Latest report on sector’s financial health paints picture of growing gap between haves and have-nots

Higher education funding from US state governments has always been volatile, but reforms to healthcare could put public universities’ income under even greater pressure, says Will Doyle

Minister's speech disrupted at event aimed at finding solutions to sector challenges

Latest data on research grants show just how much UK institutions get from the EU

Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’

Current loan system in US puts high repayment burdens on low-earning graduates, says paper

Despite uncertainty, institutions remain willing to invest to compete globally

‘It's a clear commitment and we want to deliver,’ says shadow chancellor

Chancellor Philip Hammond allocates previously announced industrial strategy funding

Looking at how tuition fees have swelled university coffers may tell only part of the story

But new analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies pinpoints risks for the future

Labor calls for funding alternatives to fee deregulation

Study claims California’s higher education policy environment has led to the ‘stagnation’ of the state’s universities 

University of Paris Seine offers UK institutions chance to create a base in France

Universities Australia warns government against scrapping Education Investment Fund

Adrian Furnham makes his case for a discerning approach to philanthropy

UK ‘naive’ to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere

Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

Novo Nordisk to invest £115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Ucas January deadline figures show 5% fall across all students

FT commentator gives damning verdict on what he describes as ‘government takeover of university sector’

Universities’ records on admissions for different ethnic and social groups also highlighted

But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ‘stay connected’ to world 

Scholars fear reputation of country’s higher education sector will be damaged as evidence of brain drain mounts 

Capital’s institutions have highest reliance on European students, THE analysis of latest Hesa data finds

University of Bath’s Glynis Breakwell and other vice-chancellors are facing criticism from staff and students over pay increases

Research shows that international student enrolment has risen as US state university funding has declined

New president boosts education budget so students do not have to pay

NUS calls on ministers to restructure higher education funding overall rather than uncap fees for accelerated courses

Average cost of remunerating v-cs in group rose by 6 per cent last year but salaries still lag those in top US and Australian universities

Although remuneration slipped off the top of the agenda at UK universities last year, generous salary rises for v-cs will not be overlooked, says Jack Grove

Duisburg-Essen rector says programme funding ‘low by international standards’

Nine institutions opened by former president will be scrutinised for corrupt practices

Russell Group also criticises prime minister’s drive to make school sponsorship condition of higher fees

Billy Bryan and Josh Berlyne are not convinced by the UK government’s doctoral loans plan