University funding/finances

The array of challenges facing universities and their leaders is daunting, with a broken funding system underpinning the pain in England

For all their collegiality, pay disparity in Australian universities is ‘not out of step’ with big business

Leading institutions are not ‘lining their pockets’ by shifting recruitment to international students, says analysis, and situation for less prestigious campuses is even worse

Fourth edition of ‘very effective’ programme will look more closely at recruitment processes and science disciplines

Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding

If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities – not the other way round, says Ian Walker

Consensus with regions and reversals by parliament’s budget committee help keep coalition promises

Open letter signed by more than 2,000 documents numerous issues with new finance systems – and calls for leaders to take responsibility

Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ‘freefall’ by a recent funding top-up

Ministries and rectors in Austria and Slovakia are yet to reach agreements on the extra funding needed to cover surging costs

The mature student specialist’s renowned politics department could become part of the solution rather than the problem, says Matthew Flinders

Cash-strapped institutions closing early for Christmas and moving teaching online, but face backlash from policymakers and students

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Responding to Laurentian crisis, proposal moving through federal Senate would bar public universities from creditor protection, but with only a promise of unspecified alternatives

A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair

While India’s prestigious IITs flex fundraising muscle, others in sector are ‘left in the lurch’

Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised

Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West

Policymakers will need to work out exactly what ‘equity’ means before entrenching it in new funding arrangements

The new prime minister’s orthodoxy will prevent a repeat of the Iron Lady’s raid on the science and higher education budgets, says Terence Kealey

London’s ‘American’ university says move will offer ‘more transparency and greater value for money’

Companies reported to have suspended orders from university due to delay in paying invoices

After granting general forgiveness of up to $20,000, administration completes regulatory process to further ease burden of federal educational loans

While students with deferred loans are insensitive to price signals, new study suggests that universities are just as unresponsive

Students plan nationwide protests as experts dismiss claim that freed-up places will be taken up by Norwegian nationals

Regional Australian universities’ fears of losing ‘equity’ enrolments to city rivals prove unfounded

Universities must tackle issues that ‘reduce enthusiasm for investment’ to defend teaching and research budgets ‘inevitably under threat’, says Iain Mansfield

Up to 50 staff at wealthier Australian institutions out-earn the average English vice-chancellor, FOI documents reveal

Government expects international enrolment to fall by 70 per cent after introduction of tuition fees for students from outside the EU

Australian analysis finds that the architects of new policies should think more about unintended consequences such as the level of student debt

Staff down tools as pay and university funding alike drift well behind inflation

French ministry wants universities to use unallocated funds to cover up to 500 per cent increases in energy costs

As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay

Biden administration comes to the party, as cash-strapped regional institution seeks new ‘development partners’

Philip Augar issues warning on LLE, but Lord Willetts fears new government ‘would like to’ restrict higher education entry

Republican-led jurisdictions join private borrower in court claims citing tax losses and other harms from $300 billion giveaway

Writing off student debt can encourage people to complete their degrees and work in the sectors they have trained for, says Danny Bielik

International students add hugely to the richness of universities. But are the risks of relying on their fees to subsidise so much fully understood?

Embracing the concept just as many other US campuses back away, top-ranked school school hopes for lawyers who pursue public service

SOAS director rails against ‘unjustly’ high mark-up on UK fees for overseas learners

Shadow chancellor promises to reinstate top rate of income tax to fund ‘biggest expansion of medical school places ever’

Status quo ‘not sustainable’ for universities or students and even Tory government ‘will recognise that soon’, shadow minister says

Disappointment as ‘mini budget’ contains no new commitments on research funding or support for students

Research support must be realistic, the cost of educating UK students must be properly met, and overseas students remain welcome, says Ian Walmsley

Some doubt government will really lavish foundation-governed universities with extra funding it has promised

As biggest member state centralises power while failing to pay its dues, the headwinds battering the pan-regional university are getting a whole lot stronger

Nearly two years after pursuit of controversial and costly insolvency process, Ontario institution sees pathway to recovery

Government accused of moving goalposts over pre-election messaging, with social sciences and business master’s also set to lose out

Prime minister says researchers should be able to work ‘without looking over their shoulder’

Recovery has a way to go, analysts insist, as signs point both north and south

Steve West also urges Truss government to ‘lean in’ to student cost-of-living crisis with return of maintenance grants for those in acute need

AUT plans for steepest job losses in the country since the pandemic’s early months as international and domestic enrolments flag

Vast lands owned by state’s campuses since 1800s ofter multibillion-dollar oil profits, along with huge environmental, political and reputational risks

Some universities getting ready to cut staff numbers after footing bills for housing and feeding Ukrainian families from institutional budgets

University report alleges students were charged extra fees in dentistry school, but faculty see racial politics and retaliation over whistleblowing

Jobs and Skills Summit sees vocational colleges awarded funding to deliver ‘the high value and often more complex qualifications’

Institutions emerge from lockdowns with an unusually large amount of money left over but say surpluses mask real financial difficulties

Universities should decide their funding needs based on their goals in teaching, research and outreach, say Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein and Phillip Nell  

But representative body says conclusions from analysis of university financial accounts are based on flawed assumptions

Beijing boosts early student participation in research as world becomes ‘less friendly’, but efforts could stall because of limited funding