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No one has come up with a better way of convincing the Treasury to bring back maintenance grants, skills minister tells social mobility event

Appointment of Kathleen Fisher to lead UK ‘high-risk, high-reward’ funding body will raise questions on shift towards defence research

Dundalk Institute of Technology to join forces with Queen’s University Belfast to create new opportunities for student mobility and skills development

R&D funders urged to work together to boost global standing of both countries in wake of new treaty

Decades-long freeze on London weighting is making PhD study unaffordable despite recent record stipend increase, student groups warn

Cross-party committee calls for higher household income threshold for maximum student support loans as more struggle to afford university

As shelves fill up and costs mount, new scheme allows librarians to discard underused books if more than seven copies exist elsewhere

Cost to sector ‘significant’ as reports say chancellor planning to limit tax-free contributions

Labour to encourage people granted asylum to better assimilate and support themselves by introducing pathway to enrol in university

‘Little universities can do’ to stop Beijing interference as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic mull enhanced restrictions

Conversations around cheating ‘misguided’ because students want technology to assist learning, not give them the answers, education lead at tech giant says

Proposed ‘one city, one faculty’ approach, reduced degree length and hostility towards international students prompt alarm