Europe

Borderless market for research across the EU seen as ‘major opportunity’ but key groups fear ‘overly restrictive measures’

Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Former department store transformed into an institution focused on climate, energy, digitalisation and security

Platform previously accused of sending ‘threatening’ tweets shuttered by Elsevier as it ‘searches for new solutions’

Multi-institution model seen as way of reducing risk of transnational education, but few universities publicly willing to commit so far

Policies and procedures at all universities to be investigated following ‘systemic’ issues that led to undergraduate wrongly being told he had failed course

Cost-cutting measures impacting student experience, finds OfS polling, with increased class sizes and reduced access to facilities among issues raised

Reduction in funding by Science and Technology Facilities Council would be ‘most drastic’ cut to curiosity-driven science ‘in a generation’ warn scientific leaders

Most low-performing English students will not repay loans, argues campaigner, who says more needs to be done to educate people about system

Calls for more support for people with experience of prison to access higher education as experts warn programmes being hampered by staff shortages

Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

Universities can produce commercially viable projects while giving the industry the sustainability and freedom to take risks on new talent, says Chris Nunn