Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities

Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Dutch universities open shared campus in The Hague

Former department store transformed into an institution focused on climate, energy, digitalisation and security

Impact tracking tool Researchfish to be closed down next year

Platform previously accused of sending ‘threatening’ tweets shuttered by Elsevier as it ‘searches for new solutions’

Toronto’s Woodin leans in to ‘middle powers’ fightback

New president of Canada’s largest university hails renewed sense of purpose as nation takes leading role on world stage

Give new commission power over fees, Canberra told

Multiple calls to extend Atec’s remit, as the cost of arts degrees edges past A$54K

Russell Group ‘cautious’ on foreign campuses amid Indonesia talks

Multi-institution model seen as way of reducing risk of transnational education, but few universities publicly willing to commit so far

We can’t let the new US graduate borrowing caps hit social mobility

Universities, states and lenders all need to step up when limits on lending from federal sources are implemented in July, says Josh Farris

‘Rethink academic model’ as India suffers from talent shortages

Rapid university expansion and rigid career structures leaving universities struggling to recruit, scholars warn

Scottish assessment review called after death of Glasgow student

Policies and procedures at all universities to be investigated following ‘systemic’ issues that led to undergraduate wrongly being told he had failed course

Nearly half of students concerned about their course closing

Cost-cutting measures impacting student experience, finds OfS polling, with increased class sizes and reduced access to facilities among issues raised

‘Devastating’ cuts to UK physics and astronomy budgets condemned

Reduction in funding by Science and Technology Facilities Council would be ‘most drastic’ cut to curiosity-driven science ‘in a generation’ warn scientific leaders

Will the Classic Learning Test shake up college admissions?

Monash agrees deal to deliver programmes in Cambodia

Venture reflects imperatives to boost offshore efforts and engage more with region

Funder review rights ‘leave researchers in impossible position’

Mandatory edits of research findings a ‘blind spot’ in integrity debate, says scholar who experienced government agency ‘interference’

‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged

Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack