Cardiff scales back redundancies again with 138 jobs now at risk
Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ‘teaching higher numbers of students’

Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ‘teaching higher numbers of students’


Student-staff ratios climb to highest level in a decade as universities make cutbacks to avoid plunging into the red

English sector facing total bill of £620 million a year, if government goes ahead with plan to take cut of international earnings

From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD...

In an era of complex challenges, single authorship is no longer the only marker of significant contributions, say Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Roger Norum and Joanna Rostek

University accused of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to recent rulings, amid fears of more ‘massive fines’


Top universities still in robust financial health in year of visa hikes and last-minute withdrawal of proposed foreign enrolment caps

Early career researchers from non-EU countries describe major hurdles to Swedish residency under recent migration law changes

Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the £9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report

Universities set to lose millions in income if government goes ahead with plan to take a cut of overseas earnings, and are unlikely to see much benefit from levy spending, critics say

We cannot lose sight of what makes the US vibrant: that we all benefit when everyone has the chance to thrive, says Marybeth Gasman

Bentley-driving vice-chancellor George Holmes put on leave after PwC investigation into university payments

Growing cooperation between institutions to address area’s skills needs a ‘blueprint for rest of UK’, politicians say