Europe

English regulator warns multiple unnamed universities may have breached consumer protection legislation

Institutions warn delays after reopening of English sector registrations are jeopardising their financial sustainability

Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’

Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast and Leicester record shortfalls for the second year in a row as latest accounts highlight sector-wide financial challenges

Universities can decide on publishing deals after terms agreed with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis

Classes to be held at iconic venue on non-matchdays as footballers’ institution seeks to counter international student shortfall

University leaders considering internal recommendation to cease veterinary education after regulators extended conditional accreditation of degrees

Analysis shows that one provider has increased its number of subcontracted students by 500 per cent 

Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books

Chief executive becomes latest to depart English regulator after nearly four years in charge

Efforts to ensure student voices are heard on university boards often ‘tokenistic’, with ‘invisible barriers’ placed on participation

Decision to row back reforms demonstrates difficulties of using process to engineer social change, critics say, with little clarity over how newly revised ‘people’ section will work