Franchising crackdown ‘should target rapidly expanding providers’
‘Catch-all’ responses risk driving out high-quality provision, report warns

‘Catch-all’ responses risk driving out high-quality provision, report warns

Changes fall short of comprehensive overhaul prescribed in landmark innovation report but are welcomed anyway

National Wealth Fund and Lloyds pledge to back environmental projects that tackle challenges universities face in retrofitting campuses

The availability of ERC grants falls off a cliff in your 40s, and in most countries there are few comparable alternatives, says Cristina Muñoz Pinedo

Findings strengthen case that UK should agree early access to next framework programme as soon as possible, say v-cs


UCU leader tells annual congress that sector faces threats like never before and issues cannot be fixed under current model

With King’s College London and Cranfield University planning to join forces, we discuss whether mergers are a sensible way forward for UK universities beset by financial challenges

Union fears remaining staff will face even heavier workloads as 500 jobs have already been lost over past two years

Survey of current and prospective loan holders finds ‘massive frustration’, with system putting off future students


Smaller English institutions among those faring best in current financial crisis because they ‘never had the fat years’

Leopoldo López reflects on how academic writing helped him while in prison, the impact of political interference on his country’s universities and what it will take to rebuild civil society

‘Class size crisis’ hitting disadvantaged students hardest, claims Australian union which blames Jobs-ready Graduates reforms for ballooning recruitment

Innovative Research Universities becomes ‘2050 Alliance’, named after participation target outlined in Australian accord