White House tries to cancel funding for international programmes

Rankings should not be dismissed – but they must keep evolving

Holding us accountable for discoveries made, lives uplifted and societies transformed is a useful purpose to serve, says Mosa Moshabela

Wallace and Gromit lead new crop of industry-partnered degrees

Royal College of Art is latest academic institution to pair up with Aardman Academy, as students focus on employability and industry connections

Hundreds of students still without marks after boycotts – union

Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action

Kurdish academic faces trial in Turkey over US doctoral thesis

Germany-based sociologist Güllistan Yarkin accused of ‘public denigration of the Turkish state’ over passages relating to treatment of Kurds and the Armenian genocide

Academics and caterers at the same table, eating from root to tip

Hopes project could lead to recipe book, in ‘important’ example of collaboration between professional services staff and researchers

‘Inexplicable’: Australian student visa refusals at record high

Ban on dependants looks all but meaningless as primary applicants struggle for admission

AI-only research grant rejection in UKRI-funded call sparks alarm

Artificial intelligence used to cull half of applications submitted by cybersecurity scholars, before they got to human eyes

Tighter research security has ‘chilling effect’ on collaboration

Report finds academics critical of heightened research security measures ahead of upcoming government strategy

ResearchPlus at odds with Russell Group on minimum entry standards

Head of new mission group for smaller ‘research-led’ universities rejects minimum tariff and differential fee plans endorsed by larger institutions

Edinburgh course cuts ‘abandoning Scottish culture and students’

But university says one in five degrees going had no students on them, and researcher argues Gaelic studies can be foregrounded in broader programmes

China ‘spends $7 million’ on research for retracted papers

With country now holding largest share of research retractions globally, scholars hope putting a number on the problem will trigger action

Mathematics needs a sober reckoning with AI

OpenAI’s solving of an iconic challenge to flex its technological muscles raises deep questions about how mathematicians view their subject, says Jon Keating

Trump urged to raise detention of US scholar with Xi

Researcher was held at airport on way to participate in academic workshop, and has not been seen for more than 100 days