More academics needed in politics, says congressman turned rector

Good lobbying skills coupled with ‘academic backbone’ the key to success in both sectors, according to leader of Colombia’s University of la Costa

Franchise income worth £20 million at university axeing provision

Buckinghamshire New University ‘still wants to do franchising but not be reliant on it’, says Damien Page

UKRI needs targets on start-ups and private R&D spending, say MPs

Setting UK’s main research funder clearly defined objectives can bolster the case for R&I investment, finds Public Accounts Committee

At least if my job was outsourced I’d be replaced by another human

As academics fear being replaced by AI, the security staff who wave them through every morning are being replaced by strangers, says George Bass 

Columbia expels student protesters as it seeks deal with Trump

Visa rules ‘obstructing’ Gazan students from UK universities

UCU’s Jo Grady urges Home Office to ‘do everything it can’ to ensure students with offers to study in the UK are able to do so

Universities set to be forced to publish franchising income

Office for Students (OfS) proposes to create new condition of registration as some partnerships ‘still being mismanaged’

Basic financial planning becoming increasingly difficult - CBOs

Seoul supremacy ‘hard to break’ as Korea boosts regional campuses

New president’s plan to spread excellence beyond capital ‘unfeasible’ in era of declining enrolments, academics warn

Switch to LLE could ease universities’ cash flow fears, says v-c

More regular payments for per-module study would help even out income over course of a year, according to new Open University leader

UK university job cuts put at 20,000 after full impact ‘hidden’

Number of roles affected could be almost double previous estimates when voluntary schemes and hiring freezes factored in, say researchers

Can right-wing US students deliver a ‘death blow’ to the Democratic Party?

The annual Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit drew thousands of students and a host of Republican luminaries. But the event was rather overshadowed by the row over Jeffrey Epstein’s client...

We must break the link between publisher revenue and article volume

Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon

University apologises for offensive language in prospectus emails

Cyberattack led to Queen Mary spamming members of the public, calling them rude names

Labor’s student debt wipe plan ‘worth far less than billed’

Promised 20 per cent cut set to be tabled in parliament, but new analysis shows real relief for graduates may end up being just 7.9 per cent