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Even though defaulting debtors risk arrest at the airport, ‘campaigns’ to recover student loans net surprisingly meagre returns

Sector’s worsening financial situation laid bare by new analysis conducted as part of wide-ranging review of university system

Dependants and visa-hoppers reportedly in the frame of looming crackdown, as rejection rates remain at near-record levels

With its leadership team and political support gone, a proposed flagship research institution in Saudi Arabia is set to ‘quietly fade away’, experts believe

IIT Madras branches out as AI takes ever more important role in hospitals, but experts warn it could face many obstacles to achieving ambition

Just a quarter of those earning average UK salary 10 years after repayments kick in predicted to pay off their Plan 2 loans in full

Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group

Long-delayed financial statement shows institution cut staff expenditure and brought in more grants to offset recruitment woes

Science and universities have ‘weathered a collapse in trust’ in many major UK institutions, although ‘shallow’ public support has not been stress-tested, research by Campaign for Science and Engineering suggests

Shanghai’s leading research university has overhauled its faculty appointment system. Will other institutions in China follow suit?

Public opinion across the UK diverges significantly from international norms, a poll of 31 nations reveals

Impacted staff were all copied into a group email, prompting outrage

Intellectual disagreements, broader societal problems and ‘governance 101’ are being misconstrued as blunders, Carolyn Evans claims

LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways of relieving pressure on markers

Senate committee inquiry blocked and stakeholder objections ignored, as ‘wide-ranging’ powers become law

Burnham government seen as more likely than Starmer to act on growing calls to relieve pressure on young graduates

Prestigious programme that has brought international scholars to Tsinghua for past 10 years aims to foster ‘more nuanced view’ of Eastern giant – despite ever-changing geopolitics

Democratic role needs protection from ‘creeping regulation’ and ‘populist backlashes’, says legal scholar

Ben Macpherson leaves government after serving just three months in newly expanded role

Elite US institution pulls plug on research centre in troubled internationalisation hub

Any concessions made by new prime minister likely to be fiercely opposed by universities fearful of losing millions of pounds in income

Threat highlights uncertainty for dual-sector universities, with twice as many masters holding the purse strings

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan urged to ensure domestic universities and research systems benefit from branch campus push

Book charting ascent to Cambridge professorship to be released posthumously, family confirms

No signs Flávio Bolsonaro would depart from jailed father’s anti-science legacy, experts say, but Lula has also struggled to relieve pressure on higher education

Erasmus-supported cohort ‘shocked’ to learn they had been reported to the Home Office for completing studies midway through final projects

Several Australian universities pause applications from Iran but say government unclear over whether students from sanctioned countries banned

Union passes vote of no confidence in executive board over high workloads and job insecurity

Weaker earnings prompt stock sell-off, as survey by Navitas reveals ‘unintended consequences’ of policy changes

Campaign groups say regulator should expect influx of cases, but many academics are still not aware that the long-delayed complaints scheme is set to launch

US institutions told they could lose funding if they retain links with foreign universities deemed risk to national security

Braverman targeting ‘lawful residents’ with plans to ‘ban foreign students’ from accessing loans, says UUK chief

Nathan Cofnas says he will ‘probably be fired’ as Ghent begins disciplinary proceedings