Higher education policy

Faculty groups say ‘we are already seeing staff and faculty leaving the state’ in response to proposed legislation

Controversial move to stop students bringing family members puts UK behind its rivals in international recruitment, but spiralling migration could lead to even more measures further down the line

International students spend billions in the UK and the vast majority return home. So why do anti-immigration measures target them, asks Ben Moore

The latest figures show more visas were granted to Nigerian dependants than to main applicants

Once-largest US online university, embracing new public partner after Arkansas rejection, agrees its for-profit sector deserves scrutiny

The ‘teenage’ regulator has a toxic relationship with universities owing to its uncompromising approach and its alleged unwillingness to listen – except to Conservative ministers. But should vice-chancellors agitating against the OfS be careful what they wish for? John Morgan reports 

International Higher Education Commission calls for shift in international student numbers towards full-time degrees

Purchase of Vienna-based university by Mathias Corvinus Collegium seen as attempt to spread ideology of populist leader abroad

International students coming to UK will be prevented from bringing family members, unless on postgraduate research courses

Universities could help alleviate any issues if they were told which of their students were bringing family members, leaders say

Pyotr Kucherenko was taken ill on a return flight from Cuba, with a journalist later claiming he had privately called the invasion ‘fascist’

Bill to enforce two-year participation ‘meant to target critics at home rather than defend country’, scholars warn

While national budget includes big increase to tertiary education funding rates, it still falls short of inflation

Challenge of balancing huge international expansion with sustainability leaves academic-turned-politician urging careful thinking

Case prompts renewed concern over plight of lecturers on temporary contracts

Australian Research Council promises more work on national security after internal review

Even temporary immigrants can easily be blamed for social ills, but we need political solutions, not crackdowns, says Keith Burnett 

‘Border integrity’ focus has blinded authorities to dodgy onshore practices in international education, Australian parliamentarians say

Minister says strong financial health of majority of institutions suggests struggles may be due to poor management, not lack of funding

DeSantis, in derisive showing at politically battered campus, enacts measure that also ends diversity hiring

After brief term leading NIH’s biggest division, former Harvard surgeon embraced as established talent at time of turmoil

Mariya Gabriel’s resignation splits her education and research briefs just as officials are shaping the successor to Horizon Europe and other flagship programmes

Saint Anselm College says event was part of democratic process but faced condemnation, given former president’s track-record of spreading misinformation

While new prime minister has nominated science and skills as budget priorities, sector fears any investment will fall short of inflation

As voting finishes in divisive poll, scholars say two decades of government under Erdoğan has left universities in a perilous state

Poll will provide first constituency-by-constituency breakdown of how voters see issue of higher education funding

UGC move meant to make higher education less English-centric ‘could backfire’ without more support for institutions, academics say

Government crackdown on student ‘poaching’ could curb legitimate university activities and hit enrolments, experts warn

Florida’s partisan attack on New College bolsters iconoclastic Massachusetts campus as it rebuilds from near closure

Sector looks to Universities Accord to consummate budget’s ‘down payment’

Party expected to stop short of committing to new higher education funding policy pre-election

Trudeau administration hardens line on research ties to China, as academics report unsolicited approaches from intelligence agency

Halving board members’ terms to allow influx of security experts risks ‘dangerous’ infringement on university autonomy, sector warns

Six legal cases lodged in bid to release billions of euros of funding, locked away because of threats to university autonomy

Former University College Cork president Michael Murphy reflects on pandemic, Ukraine and Brussels experience as he prepares to step down from top of representative body

Failure to restore power-sharing means funding issues leading to brain drain are not being resolved, warns Queen’s University Belfast v-c

Australian universities push responsibility for casualisation onto Canberra’s funding arrangements

Labour leader also says £9,250 fee status quo in England is ‘unfair’

Biden signalled new approach to scientific engagement with Asian superpower, but scholars say Trump’s China Initiative is continuing under new guises

In ongoing awakening, several large universities act on evidence that marginalised students fare better with greater feelings of community

Interest in India growing as Washington-Beijing tensions show no indication of waning, scholars say

New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates

Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary

Legislation aiming to eradicate ‘cancel culture’ will be used across political spectrum, not only by Conservatives, former minister predicts

Aiming to deny routine extension of federal debt limit, House conservatives hope to force lower Pell grant upon millions of borrowers

Parental income should not influence eligibility for living allowances, Australian academics argue

New leadership of Scottish government told to make sustainable higher education funding a priority after years of stagnation

Fears over reputation and secrecy deal major setback to online US university's once-promising bid for traditional higher ed partner

Colleges and universities are providing students more in tuition breaks than they collect, in sign of growing budgetary strains

Key Trump adviser warns party backers about the dangers they now face from easier registration and voting processes on campuses

With nation’s top judicial body expected to outlaw efforts to consider race in admissions, student essays held out as alternative means of preserving equity

With the country’s schools often still divided along religious lines, its universities have helped bring people together, says academic

Outgoing MP takes on role during crucial period for UK science and research

Governance strategy by Trump-backing Republican governor held up by national group of university trustees as model to be emulated

Scholarships announced at QUB conference as Hillary and Bill Clinton visit to mark 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Once built, aerospace institute on southern island of Hainan will become first solo campus run by Russian institution inside Asian superpower

State Senate has already passed one of three bills that would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who “attempt to compel” certain beliefs, and ban what the legislation defines as diversity, equity and inclusion programming

Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of Ron DeSantis

Vice-chancellor hails US President's speech as giving the institution ‘fantastic prominence’ worldwide

Further security service-directed restrictions could deal ‘serious blow’ to West’s China studies and isolate Chinese academics