Proposed Erasmus+ budget ‘bare minimum needed’, universities warn
Umbrella body calls for more investment and warns against focus on political priorities for EU mobility scheme

Umbrella body calls for more investment and warns against focus on political priorities for EU mobility scheme


Government ambition to quickly develop up to five elite institutions could end up taking decades, warn experts

New chief executive of Advance HE discusses university finances, EDI pressures and plans to pivot body from ‘development to transformation’ agency

Registration requirements and compact negotiations would be reformed to funnel universities into ‘focus areas’, under panel’s draft proposals

Manufactured scarcity will undermine MSIs’ solidarity and risks reopening opportunity gaps in minority communities, says Marybeth Gasman

Institution at centre of franchising debate says it has lost all its students since courses de-designated

Results of the fifth annual Knowledge Exchange Framework show research-intensive institutions performed most strongly on intellectual property and commercialisation

New modelling estimates that controversial proposals could wipe about £2.2 billion from the UK economy in just five years


Expat Ian Findlay says his fourth retirement will be his last. Before that, his task is to ‘transform’ the breeding ground of Papuan prime ministers

Education committee says exemption to defunding plans for healthcare courses should be extended to include ‘growth-driving’ industries

Breaking the link between researchers and their outputs harms academic mobility and disciplinary excellence, argue professors

Removing fees not enough to make system accessible to talented would-be applicants, says research group

Poorer students are shut out of the vast industry that has grown up around Konkur preparation, says Roohola Ramezani