Moving to UAE ‘like being dropped on Mars’, say émigré faculty
Culture shocks experienced by international academics moving to Middle East put progress of universities at risk, study finds
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UCU calls Greenwich a ‘rogue employer’ as 300 job cuts revealed
All of university’s hourly paid lecturers in social sciences set to go under plans that will affect a quarter of academic workforce
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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’
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NZ v-cs brace for ‘messy’ budget after filing hard-won surpluses
Student-staff ratios climb to highest level in a decade as universities make cutbacks to avoid plunging into the red
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Big universities ‘face £20 million bill’ from foreign student tax
English sector facing total bill of £620 million a year, if government goes ahead with plan to take cut of international earnings
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Will funding cuts devalue arts and humanities PhDs in the UK?
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...
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The value of co-authorship must be recognised outside the sciences
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
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Warwick proposes barring trans women from female toilets
University accused of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to recent rulings, amid fears of more ‘massive fines’
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Record earnings for Melbourne, Monash despite policy upheavals
Top universities still in robust financial health in year of visa hikes and last-minute withdrawal of proposed foreign enrolment caps
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Don’t come to Sweden, international PhD students warn others
Early career researchers from non-EU countries describe major hurdles to Swedish residency under recent migration law changes
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UKRI to receive new ‘time-bound’ targets for research impact
Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the £9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report
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‘Vague’ fee levy plan ‘would benefit Treasury over students’
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
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Minority-serving institutions’ backers must defy Trump’s attacks on DEI
We cannot lose sight of what makes the US vibrant: that we all benefit when everyone has the chance to thrive, says Marybeth Gasman