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Sector’s worsening financial situation laid bare by new analysis conducted as part of wide-ranging review of university system

Just a quarter of those earning average UK salary 10 years after repayments kick in predicted to pay off their Plan 2 loans in full

Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group

Long-delayed financial statement shows institution cut staff expenditure and brought in more grants to offset recruitment woes

Science and universities have ‘weathered a collapse in trust’ in many major UK institutions, although ‘shallow’ public support has not been stress-tested, research by Campaign for Science and Engineering suggests

Public opinion across the UK diverges significantly from international norms, a poll of 31 nations reveals

Impacted staff were all copied into a group email, prompting outrage

LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways of relieving pressure on markers

Burnham government seen as more likely than Starmer to act on growing calls to relieve pressure on young graduates

Devolved powers can better integrate the post-16 system but England’s national architecture pulls in the other direction, say Nic Beech, Fran Darlington-Pollock and John Blake

Ben Macpherson leaves government after serving just three months in newly expanded role

Any concessions made by new prime minister likely to be fiercely opposed by universities fearful of losing millions of pounds in income