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Even if the department lives to fight another day, putting it under threat will have helped Republicans to ‘flood the zone’ and disorientate opponents, academics say

Long caught up in debates about academic freedom and internationalisation, liberal arts may not survive in city state beyond closure of pioneering partnership

Two dozen academics join ‘mainstream’ call for a health check on youth gender treatment

Financial benefits of increasing domestic recruitment ‘now negligible’, according to leaked document

Hugh Brady warns 16 per cent fall in real-terms value of recurrent grant funding ‘threatens the very foundations of British science’

Over 80 per cent of union members vote for strike action after successive years or job cuts at University of East Anglia

Skills minister says upcoming White Paper will seek to address ‘fragmentation’ between further and higher education

Political pressures and legislative haziness leave institutions ‘on a hiding to nothing’

Under-representation of women probably a key factor in country’s underperformance versus rest of Europe

Higher education in Gaza will continue to feel the hit from infrastructure damage and diminished student intake for years to come, experts warn

Union describes results of THE analysis as ‘sickening’ amid spate of redundancies and course closures in crisis-hit universities

Visa challenges and changing immigration policies in traditional student destinations are driving Indians to consider emerging locations

Consultation launched during pause in new registrations, with pent-up demand at end of hiatus likely to be joined by franchisees affected by government reforms

Scouring funded grant applications for ‘woke’ terminology is ‘chilling’, say top US researchers alarmed by defunding threats

Humanities courses are often forced to ‘justify their relevance’ in ways STEM subjects are not, TV historian says

Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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