Labour pledges major expansion of NHS training in universities
Shadow chancellor promises to reinstate top rate of income tax to fund ‘biggest expansion of medical school places ever’
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Cambridge picks Princeton provost Deborah Prentice as next v-c
Psychologist will become first American to lead institution when she succeeds Stephen Toope
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Labour’s Phillipson: English higher education funding ‘broken’
Status quo ‘not sustainable’ for universities or students and even Tory government ‘will recognise that soon’, shadow minister says
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Most humanities PhD students in US without a job at graduation
Median age at degree completion shrinks, although share of field’s graduates with job commitment does too, American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds
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Truss plans ‘mean more research money’ for ‘golden triangle’
Labour conference hears that levelling up is now ‘dead’ for Tories, meaning alternative vision for regional innovation needed
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Australia wrestles with shortage of placements for students
Retaining Covid innovations seen as possible solution to dealing with backlog
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UK university staff get £1,000 bonuses over cost of living
Unions say one-off handouts will do little to deter members’ appetite to strike for better pay deals
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Brazilian academics hopeful but realistic as Bolsonaro nears end
Universities face long road to recovery even if Lula is victorious, say sector leaders
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University offers free breakfasts for students
University of the West of Scotland says twice-weekly meals are a response to cost-of-living crisis
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The UK’s broken PGR support system must be fixed
The cost-of-living crisis is bringing to a head the inadequacy of current funding and support for doctoral students, says Ellie Munro
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Chinese universities must respond to rising graduate unemployment
The economic downturn is beyond their control, but degree programmes could be better tailored to industrial need, says Wu Keming
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Students need practical help, not principles, in the cost-of-living crisis
Covid-19 illustrated how universities are not always good at taking responsibility for the practicalities of their policy statements, says Zahir Irani
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Role of universities overlooked in UK’s new ‘growth plan’
Disappointment as ‘mini budget’ contains no new commitments on research funding or support for students
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UK considers next steps as Horizon Europe deadlock continues
Westminster refers to alternatives rather than arbitration, after unproductive Brussels meeting triggered by legal action
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US mounts dramatic pivot to ‘place-based industrial policy’
Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions