Nigerian academics oppose Coventry’s Lagos plans

Union boss says British institutions should not be opening sites in Africa while UK continues to reject study visa applications at home

Former Cambridge v-c Borysiewicz set to take over as UKRI chair

Cancer researcher to succeed businessman Andrew Mackenzie at time of major change for research funder

Employer satisfaction with graduates still high in age of AI

Face-to-face learners said to be more collaborative workers than online-only peers, survey suggests

‘Potentially existential’: proposed federal funding rules denounced

Kiwi students ‘make compromises’ on food, finds study

Auckland survey finds 45 per cent of respondents are ‘food insecure’, while Otago study traces ‘persistent’ reliance on food banks

Gender-critical scholar complains over REF panel ‘bias’ fears

Appointment of philosopher who has refused to recognise viewpoint as legitimate could have ‘chilling effect’ on types of studies submitted to the exercise that distributes £2 billion in funding, says...

‘Unprecedented’ fee fall pushes Brunel into £56 million deficit

One of the last members of Universities UK to share financial accounts for 2024-25 posts one of sector’s biggest shortfalls

Members’ frustration with ‘absent’ University of London grows

Vice-chancellor Wendy Thomson has been suspended for 10 months but institutions’ concerns stretch back much further than that

Hong Kong is China’s global science gateway – but it may not remain so

However strong China’s university system becomes, its success will always be partly dependent on international networks, says Futao Huang

Calls to rerun UCU election dismissed by trade union watchdog

Six of seven complaints made against UCU thrown out by Certification Officer, with any breach of rules found not to have swayed final result

Universities ‘need to reclaim what it means to be African’

Continent does not have a knowledge deficit but a ‘knowledge to real-world impact deficit’, vice-chancellor tells summit

Cambridge receives record £190 million gift from British investor

Money from Chris Rokos will be used to establish new school of government that will train future leaders

South Korean students look beyond US for study abroad options

Japan and Australia becoming more popular options, alongside European destinations

Pan-African collaboration needed as global funding sources drop

Geopolitical instability and economic challenges mean funding institutions used to rely on has dried up, summit hears

Strategy for open-access books needed to avoid ‘fragmentation’

Study looking at whether long-form academic work freely available finds ‘contested’ picture