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Academic and professional services posts to go, with university blaming ‘unprecedented financial challenges’

Multiannual funding programme will ‘retain spirit’ of much-applauded previous scheme, considered ‘step-change’ in Irish research investment

Labour proposes graduate visa reduction, new fee levy and stricter compliance rules in long-awaited policy document

Two-year visa will cover alumni at other high-ranking institutions, as study highlights challenges related to ‘ridiculously expensive’ route

Universities praise continuity of reappointments in era of reform, as post-election reshuffle ushers in new assistant ministry in international education

New levy on income from international students proposed as government outlines wide-ranging changes to immigration system

Wave of ‘low-quality’ papers threatening to overwhelm journals and peer reviewers, preventing them from assessing more meaningful research

Macron criticised over €100 million package while ‘underfunding’ higher education at home

New era of collaboration will benefit both sectors, according to leader who hopes to put ‘efficiency’ skills to good use at one of England’s smallest universities

‘Third way’ approach to international students would see country strengthen educational offer but also send more of its own citizens abroad

Universities hope to build for the future by attracting students disaffected by Trump regime

Country bucks trend of declining enrolments, suggesting policy headaches Down Under matter little compared with what is going on elsewhere, analysis suggests

Critical thinking becoming ever more important in age of AI, but departments not good at showing their worth, summit hears

Yet more universities announce job cuts amid ‘financially challenging environment’

Universities mount fightback against further restrictions on international students, emphasising their role in growing the economy and lack of public support for new measures

University groups urge more flexibility and funding for ‘crucial’ cross-border education in next long-term budget

Religious institutions’ governing documents incompatible with OfS rules, says secular society

Whole role of science in societies ‘being threatened’ by period of great turbulence, says scholar who chaired Ireland’s Covid vaccination drive

Higher education and business leaders write to Stormont over the sector’s ‘real and current jeopardy’

Office for Students warns providers against being overly ambitious in their forecasting after financial performance declines for third year running

Brigid Heywood told a court she reflects ‘every day’ on ‘momentary aberration’ that ended 40-year academic career

Academics at UCL’s law school challenge sector’s embrace of technology, claiming students’ over-reliance on ‘shortcuts’ damages skills acquisition

Maintaining opportunities only for young people dismissed as little better than wholesale defunding

Report finds overseas departures among high-performing school-leavers have reached highest level in 15 years, with many heading to neighbouring Australia

Institutions forget their importance to countries when they let themselves get embroiled in political debates, summit hears

Fundamental values that form higher education at stake, warns president of the European University Association

Scottish university looks to save further £5.5 million to bring down its deficit, a year after languages cuts

Survey highlights concerns that university leavers are less prepared for work than previous generations

Lords committee urges government to make it cheaper for foreign researchers to work in UK following science funding cuts in US

Leading research institutions endorse experimental non-profit journal as it loses its impact factor

Restrictions to incoming international students and graduate route thought to be more likely following losses by Labour in local elections

Newly re-elected government urged to treat students with more compassion, with high visa costs ‘putting off a generation’

Chicago-based Illinois Institute of Technology receives approval from Indian regulators