‘Nothing off the table’ says Edinburgh head on school closures
Head of Scotland’s biggest university warns it may need to shutter departments and degree courses to close ‘urgent’ financial gap
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Budget cuts ‘unprecedented setback for Swiss science’
Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francs
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Reliance on overseas student revenues ‘skews Australian research’
Failure to improve translation of ‘laudable’ research output will see country ‘slide into mediocrity’, reviewers warn
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Where do UK PhD graduates go? Careers observatory may hold answer
Collating information from LinkedIn, ORCID profiles, Hesa and HMRC could solve data black hole over PhD careers, says research director
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Hong Kong universities to dip into reserves as budget cuts loom
Cuts seen as inevitable but academics urge restraint in upcoming budget
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Thousands of UK academics still on ‘unjust’ zero-hours contracts
Amid financial pressures, experts warn that the practice is likely to continue for some time
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Antisemitic incidents in higher education drop, but stay high
Anti-Jewish hatred more likely to be ‘overtly related’ to criticism of Israel on campuses compared with in wider society, says report
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Autonomy surrendered in ‘enshittification’ of academia – Thrift
Former Warwick v-c warns ‘industrialisation’ of universities risks turning academics into ‘drones’, and says fellow leaders have done little to help
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There’s good news in US higher education if you look for it
These are undoubtedly turbulent times, but the figures suggest that the sector is in relatively good health, say Eileen Strempel and Stephen Handel
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Dutch courses risk ‘disappearing’ as overseas enrolments fall
Government drive to cut international recruitment appears to pay dividends, but universities condemn ‘outdated’ approach
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‘Don’t judge me on size of research budget,’ Vallance tells MPs
Science minister tells Commons committee that he is more interested in maximising impact of science spending than increasing total outlay, as he emphasises need to get visa policies ‘right’
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Minority-serving institutions fear impact as Trump targets DEI
US colleges and universities that predominantly serve underrepresented students don’t know where they stand amid new president’s sweeping executive orders
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Stay realistic on research grant prospects, UK universities urged
With success rates below 10 per cent in a recent funding round, pressure on scholars to secure grants may not be realistic, warns leading economist
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Unconditional offers fall to lowest level in a decade
Some institutions still making thousands of unconditional offers every year, using ‘one of the few recruitment levers still left to pull’
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Limit vice-chancellor salaries to A$430,000, senator says
Private member’s bill the latest slap in the face to a sector struggling for social licence as election looms