Europe

Cleaners, security guards and technicians to walk out after unions reject below-inflation pay rise

Maximum interest rate to be limited as Westminster government continues to look at wider reforms to controversial student finance system

‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

Teacher-turned-sleuth Stephen Vainker warns rise of chatbot language in journals will further erode school confidence in education faculties

Northumbria’s move to encourage staff on to USS is not about saving costs. It will allow pay to keep up with other research-intensives, says Andy Long

Female early career scholars found to be ‘largely absent’ from higher-level governance structures in many European countries

‘Weekend-only’ learners signed contracts in good faith before being suddenly told to repay money through no fault of their own, says NUS head

Universities set to miss out on promised funding after EU fraud office finds ‘irregularities’ at body that supports HE-business collaborations

Historians say their ability to study material held in ‘mother lode of all 20th-century archives’ diminished by long suspension of vetting requests

Increase in visa refusals expected to be used as primary method for addressing asylum concerns for politically important nations

Decades-old programmes among those being lost under new system that prioritises each institution’s traditional strengths

A precipitous fall in the university’s performance can only be rectified by a restoration of academic governance, says Terence Kealey