Dundee job cuts more than halved as part of new ‘recovery plan’

University changes course on redundancies under pressure from unions and politicians, but says new proposal requires ‘significant public funding’

International strategy must address outward mobility too – UUKi

Dips in UK students studying abroad must be tackled to ‘add credibility’ to debates about internationalisation

Sweeping changes to student loans proposed by Republicans

Australian election: smaller parties target debt, visas and fees

Doubling of international fees, closing visa ‘loopholes’ and tying student debt to mortgages among the ideas proposed ahead of poll

UK universities’ links to ‘repressive’ mega-campus condemned

Institutions advising on Armenia’s merger plans should consider how ‘academic city’ will make student protest impossible, warns Harvard professor

Three providers fail to rectify complaints as compensation soars

Amount paid out to English and Welsh students more than doubles in a year, driven by cases involving ‘serious disruption’ and ‘misleading information’

Let’s embrace the REF’s radical redefinition of academic excellence

We finally have a mechanism to overthrow the UK’s neo-feudal system of academic gatekeeping, say Krzysztof Nawratek and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran

Student loans for franchised degrees worth nearly £2 billion

Unregistered providers account for more than half of franchised tuition fee money claimed in past three years, new figures show

Rise in university-business collaboration ‘driven by elite few’

More than 60 per cent increase in income over past two decades masks ‘stagnation’ in collaboration below high-performing institutions, report finds

Another big rise in Australian student visa fees planned

Labor proposes A$400 hike to what are already the highest fees in the world with the opposition Liberal Party planning even steeper increases

Black colleges put hope in new executive order after grant losses

Permanent contracts ‘barely improve’ job security for academics

Australian scholars with ongoing roles almost as fearful as casuals about being out of work

Elite universities admit fewer local students as intakes grow

Students recruited from surrounding areas outnumbered by international applicants at 22 institutions

UK’s global research strengths ‘threatened’ by QR cuts

Block grant funding model found to hand country edge over other research systems, but only if value of funding isn’t further eroded

Is the demonisation of liberalism damning US universities?

‘White liberals’ are attacked from all sides of the US political spectrum. And with Donald Trump ramping up the rhetoric, college professors – popularly seen as archetypal liberals – are very much in...