Funding axe for higher-level apprenticeships confirmed
Government to continue to fund level 7 opportunities for 16-21-year-olds, in move many believe will make little difference
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‘Research minnows’ have a vital role in UK arts and humanities
By spreading studentships around the country, the AHRC’s new PhD funding formula will strengthen research through diversity, says Katie Normington
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Deborah Prentice: ‘In tough times, we depend on other institutions’
Cambridge’s 347th vice-chancellor may have spent the whole of her previous career at Princeton, but she has no plans to tear up local or national traditions as she seeks to turn the UK government’s...
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Liverpool joins rush to India with Bengaluru branch campus
Fourth Russell Group member heading to subcontinent wins approval for research and teaching outpost ahead of 2026 opening
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‘No humans, no hassle’ but does AI for overseas admissions work?
Firms promise technology can boost conversions and relieve pressure on overworked teams, but critics warn over impersonal processes and massive bottlenecks of ‘nonsensical’ applications
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Block teaching model ‘helped turn around university’s finances’
VU credits sequential approach to teaching as revenue increases and salary bill drops – but union says it is leading to overwork
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UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding
UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts
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Trump’s attack on military academies’ intellectual rigour is unpatriotic
A nation that truly believed in its greatness wouldn’t require its educational institutions to declare it, says Jonathan Zimmerman
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New tool challenges ‘hierarchies’ in collaborative research
‘Valuing voices’ checklist hopes to help academics to design research projects with ‘principles of inclusiveness’ in mind
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Transaction ‘supplanting collaboration’ in student recruitment
Everybody loses if first-world universities do not share the benefits with source countries of doctoral students, university leaders say
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Barring Harvard international students ‘trashes US soft power’
Trump’s latest escalation in battle with nation’s wealthiest university shows he is attempting a full-scale takeover, scholars say
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Hong Kong university opens doors to Harvard’s foreign students
HKUST offers unconditional acceptance to international students at Harvard in wake of US government crackdown
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EDI requirements in recruitment challenged by free speech group
Universities asking candidates to prove support for equality policies may be unlawful, claims Alumni for Free Speech
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EU fees a £1.2 billion ‘bargaining chip’ in youth mobility talks
Bloc seen as likely to insist on lower fees for its students in upcoming negotiations, putting UK in a difficult position, given its wider crackdown on migration
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Leeds Trinity first university fined over franchising failures
English regulator tells institution its checks and oversight were insufficient after subcontracted provision tripled in two years