Politics

Announcement that government will finally follow through with threats to restrict admissions to ‘low-quality’ courses leaves sector leaders with as many questions as answers

Top House Republicans warn that joint venture appears to be giving military advantages to rival nation

‘If you can’t see it, you can’t be it,’ minister says, ahead of review report promising other ‘immediate’ recommendations

Fears that UK scientists will be frozen out of networks once association is agreed are overblown, say leading researchers

Academics launch lawsuit in attempt to get restrictions relaxed to allow them to study the platform used by two-thirds of American teens

National interest not served by ‘overstating the threats’ or cultivating a ‘climate of uncertainty’, report says

Long-awaited consultation response parks proposal to introduce sector-wide minimum entry requirements but slashes foundation year fee limit

More than 20 public agencies could be turned into just three, but sector leaders are wary of the government’s intentions

‘Glocal’ scheme aims to boost universities outside Seoul and drive innovation in the face of demographic decline

Regardless of its merits, the bill barring state agencies from boycotting Israel cannot apply to universities, says Graham Virgo

In apparent attempt to persist with Covid-related campaign against Fauci, House members argue procedural flaw endangers $25 billion in medical funding

The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters’ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ‘diversity’, says Harvey Graff

Researchers say big increases to cost of study and work visas, and NHS surcharge, will make country less attractive to international students and staff

Treasury announces first of 12 zones ‘based around a university and clusters of high-growth industries’

A long-awaited law might face further delay after Mark Rutte's government collapses in a ‘polarised’ political landscape, while some universities are already capping places for non-Europeans without waiting for the legislation to arrive

China is ‘stealing UK academic research’ in ‘plain sight’ and suppressing political dissent on campus, says intelligence committee

Surveys suggest concern about student borrowing transcends age and political divides

While South Australian vice-chancellors see few downsides from an amalgamation, their western counterparts take a different view

Conservative former universities minister tables amendment to allow annual uprating, to ‘flush out’ Tory and Labour positions on ‘funding crisis’

Ministers only want to protect freedom of speech that they agree with, claims former Oxford vice-chancellor

‘Vanity project’ to meet domestic health workforce needs would be ‘more socially accountable’, proponent says

MPs’ vision to cut student numbers may signal future direction of party, but experts question its appeal to voters

Education faculties say they are already delivering the ‘core content’ now mandated in their degrees

Trial ahead of LLE failed because of ‘utilitarian’ course offer while ‘top university’ prestige harms credit transfer prospects, says leader

A Labour government would be ‘constrained’ by ‘badly damaged’ economy left by Conservatives, warns leader, who says funding policy will be outlined ‘in due course’

Party urged to commit to reversing long-running decline in university funding, after signs its focus is on tweaking status quo

Claire Coutinho argues the free speech act is already having impact on campuses and praises university leaders for response

Professors in global North should come south as temporary solution to immigration headaches, Rwandan ambassador tells event

Analysts are enthusiastic about microcredentials but unsure about their suitability in universities

Committee wants bystander training as regulatory condition and calls universities’ use of NDAs to silence victims in sex cases ‘disgraceful’

While the two governing councils have agreed to a combined university, many still need convincing – not least, opposition and crossbench parliamentarians

Government expected to initiate system of caps, potentially using new quality measures, but drop minimum entry requirement idea

Universities consulted on increasing limit from current level of 20 per cent in face of demographic decline

‘New Conservatives’ want to axe post-study work visas and stop ‘poorest performing’ universities from recruiting overseas

President outlines ‘new path’ towards providing debt relief for as many borrowers as possible

University leaders pin hopes on forthcoming review, as funding erosion and regulatory inflexibility threaten core capability

Latest impasse with European Commission over UK push for ‘correction mechanism’ to avoid being major net contributor 

Trump-appointed conservative supermajority rules that $400 billion forgiveness plan stretched intent of emergency relief

Shorter degrees and more apprenticeships among other plans to boost staff recruitment

Government waters down proposal to shorten length of master’s degrees

Calls for EU politicians to trim fat from next framework programme, better protect its budget from raiding for pet projects and create a new category for Switzerland and the UK

Critics say a temporary boost, in the form of money that had been earmarked for universities anyway, will not compensate for starvation rations

Tory former universities minister urges shift of responsibility to DSIT and binning of ‘Thatcherite rhetoric’ against industrial strategy

While admitting the much-protested model is dead in the US, Dartmouth’s Hanlon leads expert panel in setting out ways that similar language-culture teaching programmes could grow

Observers welcome ‘funding correction’, bankrolled from ‘transfer of underspends’ amid flagging enrolments, but say permanent solutions are needed

On a bipartisan basis, members of Congress see value in federal government tweaking rules to allow and encourage quicker pathways

Researchers can help policymakers get to grips with what is and isn’t possible in areas such as hydrogen fuel production, says Tracey Brown

The prospect of a Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis run for the White House has enraged many across the sector but others have decided to remain conspicuously silent

Three-year time limit to gain competence branded ‘unrealistic’ given high workloads

Overhaul of rule that removes student access to government subsidies if they do not complete at least half of their subjects under ‘active consideration’

With OfS under fire, shadow minister praises ‘innovative’ new Welsh post-16 education and research regulator

Eliminating fees would pay for itself through tax while boosting equity of access, Duncan Maskell insists

In campaigns to isolate China and deny disinformation, federal lawmakers join angry activists in besieging universities and their researchers

The country’s National Education Policy aims to build a quality internationalised and marketised sector. But, says Saumen Chattopadhyay, it faces many entrenched challenges

As annual legislative sessions conclude around the country, academic interference eases but budgetary hopes also fade away

Universities move from public funding to charging tuition fees

As Trudeau concludes sweeping immigration review, minister sees value in greater geographic division of visa approvals

Hong Kong has ‘a special convening power’ that could attract partners from China and the Middle East, CUHK’s v-c tells Tiya Thomas-Alexander

Underfunding and an authoritarian government combine to create existential threat for Poland’s basic research agency, scholars fear

Some universities have already begun collecting dues while others ‘wait and see’ for amendment to pass parliament and details of government scholarships to be finalised