Science elite deterred by UK’s costly visas, says Wellcome chief
John-Arne Røttingen warns that financial difficulties facing UK universities are putting research at risk
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Australian universities hold steady as Gaza protests escalate
Vice-chancellors tread lightly as students occupy building and defy instructions to vacate camps
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Scores of jobs to go in London South Bank restructure
Union threatens strike and says cuts will leave university ‘a shell of its former self’
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Recruitment woes could leave eight in 10 universities in deficit
OfS says hopes that English university finances will recover in next few years appear optimistic, as they are based on forecasts that are too ambitious
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Aliens aside, does ‘3 Body Problem’ portray academia accurately?
Game of Thrones creators return with sci-fi thriller focused on five friends with Oxford physics doctorates
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Delays to vital UK sector data ‘unconscionable’
Student statistics due out in January now not expected until August, leaving universities ‘looking in the rear-view mirror’
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Mixed reaction to Australian research and development review
We should improve the system while we’re examining it, critics argue
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The last thing UK students need is a higher maintenance loan
Students already graduate with huge debts. Rather than accepting yet more easy credit, they should do more paid work, says Paul Wiltshire
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Oxford chancellor election rules redrawn over ‘vetting’ fear
Committee will have no role in selection of nominations to succeed Lord Patten, university insists
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Think local to win national funding argument, universities told
Amid a large number of competing priorities for the next government, focusing on skills and communities is probably the only way for institutions to secure the support they need, conference hears
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Ill Nigerian PhD student who complained faces losing UK visa
Home Office notification of Sue Agazie highlights ‘weaponisation of immigration status’ by universities when students complain, say critics
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Why has policing of US campus protests gone so wrong?
Ideal of student-oriented officers, arising from 1960s-era protests, appears to have lost ground to profession’s more enduring imperatives
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Overseas student complaints to England and Wales ombudsman surge
Tightening visa restrictions, language barriers and cultural misunderstanding have contributed to soaring numbers of complaints to OIA
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The MAC report must launch a debate on UK HE’s purpose and funding
Universities are crying out for consistency, something resembling certainty and a plan for the way forward, says Graham Galbraith
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Brussels wants one in four European students to study abroad
Twenty-three per cent target adopted by European Council despite calls for previous target to be lowered, not increased