Study visa demand rising but dependants hit new low

Home Office data confirms apparent rebound in international student numbers, with visa applications nearing 2022 levels

Entries open for 21st Times Higher Education Awards

Universities in UK and Ireland encouraged to submit entries across 20 categories, including new one exclusively for specialist institutions

Community colleges face unique challenges from Trump presidency

Will American academics flourish if they go abroad to escape Trump?

With US academia under siege from the Trump administration, universities elsewhere are contemplating offering ‘asylum’ to disaffected researchers. Here, four former US academics now established...

‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar

Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

Sweden’s drive to win more Nobels ‘requires riskier research’

Home of prestigious awards hopes to claim more of its own after launching new funding stream – but leaders caution against too much political control

Institutional neutrality mandated in New Zealand free speech law

Bill requires universities to promise not to ‘take positions’ on non-core issues or ban invited speakers because of what they might say

Financial crisis or not, there must be no shuttering of open science

As UK universities desperately seek savings, open science advocates must press both their moral and selfish cases, say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs

Asia University Rankings 2025: methodology

Our methodology uses data on all aspects of Asian universities' core missions 

Coventry University’s new India campus approved

University forging ahead with overseas expansion plans as financial challenges build at home

India’s universities must address growing credibility problems

Disputes over the trustworthiness of India’s state-run university rankings raise questions over quality assurance efforts, says Pushkar

Sussex says OfS acting beyond powers as it seeks judicial review

University handed record fine over free speech breaches claims ruling gives ‘free rein’ to racists and sexists

Wollongong eyes Saudi first with plans to open Riyadh campus

Australian university set to become first foreign institution with base in Middle Eastern country, but its staff think it should focus closer to home

Middle East studies comes under pressure at Harvard and Columbia

Council changes tipped to help universities power up local growth

Efforts to rationalise complex web of English local authorities – and hand them more powers – seen as a way of creating potentially strong partners for institutions looking to innovate locally