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With record visa refusals and a metric-driven system, the rise in countries considered high risk was a foregone conclusion

Applicants to UK and Australian universities generally have a better time dealing with ChatGPT, ‘mystery shopper’ study finds

Bucks New University has been suspended from issuing student visas, the Home Office has announced 

Universities have urgently been told to review their ties with Chinese research institute after spy warning

Leader of Malaysia’s Sunway University says institutions must push back on ‘political’ moves to stop academic collaboration

There can be ‘no science above politics’ when science is ‘under attack’, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine says a day after it was struck by a Russian drone 

Better to expand global partnerships to tap into huge demand for HE in the developing world, says SOAS University of London leader Adam Habib 

Number of students taking UK courses abroad has surpassed international students studying in the UK for the first time, new figures show

Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now

Chinese universities go from strength to strength, but will need to bolster their international outlook if they are to reach the top – and its policy signals are mixed on this front

Study analysing grant application data from Danish funders suggests that requesting more funding could boost female academics’ careers

Fallout over differential university fees suggestion continues, amid suggestions that the Russell Group head is saying the quiet part out loud

Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity

The success of the West’s oldest university is down to its ability to adapt to the challenges of each era and a strong relationship with its city, Giovanni Molari tells Seher Asaf

Higher education minister says greater use of student loans could form part of the solution for the trouble-hit National Student Financial Aid Scheme

US retreat means the UK has unique opportunity to become the ‘global destination of talent’, but risks squandering it, v-cs and politicians tell Labour conference

New funding will finance research into a ‘nature-positive economy and society’ and preparations for the next, expanded Horizon programme

The Egyptian security officers were tried in Rome after Giulio Regeni’s mutilated body was found on a Cairo roadside in 2016

Student ambassador programme is the latest example of AI solidifying its place on university campuses, but observers question its ethics

The London university will roll out undergraduate and master’s degrees as soon as January 2027 as part of its global push

New report highlights potential for high publication growth to drive economic and social benefit across region, but industry collaboration gap is widening

New arrangement not necessarily a conflict but it makes the advocacy job harder, says Australian governance expert

But universities should increasingly look to establish a relationship between students, regions and local communities, Labour conference hears

Scandals about franchised provision have undermined the sector, and universities need to ensure failings are not repeated, vice-chancellors say

Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action

Germany-based sociologist Güllistan Yarkin has been accused of ‘public denigration of the Turkish state’ over passages relating to treatment of Kurds and the Armenian genocide

Royal College of Art is latest academic institution to pair up with Aardman Academy, as students focus on employability and industry connections

Hopes project could lead to recipe book, in ‘important’ example of collaboration between professional services staff and researchers

Ban on dependants looks all but meaningless as primary applicants struggle for admission

Artificial intelligence used to cull half of applications submitted by cybersecurity scholars, before they got to human eyes

Report finds academics critical of heightened research security measures ahead of upcoming government strategy

Head of new mission group for smaller ‘research-led’ universities rejects minimum tariff and differential fee plans endorsed by larger institutions

With country now holding largest share of research retractions globally, scholars hope putting a number on the problem will trigger action