Another three UK universities decline new Elsevier deal
Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher
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Master’s plunge 10 per cent amid record fall in overseas students
UK universities’ recruitment from India, China and Nigeria falls after policy changes, with student numbers now well below peak of a few years ago
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Charles Sturt announces Sri Lanka campus in Colombo
Regional Australian university joins nine others in establishing South Asian outpost, promising revenue will support New South Wales heartland
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Uncertain future for Neom U as Saudi megacity scaled back
New flagship institution intended to rival region’s best faces lengthy delays as highly ambitious plans to create sustainable city in the desert unravel
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War pushes Ukraine’s academic journals towards open access
International partners step up offers of help as editors battle power cuts, brain drain and ongoing uncertainties of conflict to keep research publishing alive
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Enhanced monitoring ‘politicising’ college donations from Qatar
Scholars criticise ‘crude’ exercise as Middle Eastern country tops list of donors after US institutions forced to disclose foreign funds
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Retaining Welsh students key to saving universities, says Plaid
Plaid Cymru’s education spokesperson discusses plan to reverse decline in student numbers as nationalist party targets victory in upcoming elections
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Redundancies don’t have to destroy trust: a tale of two business schools
During times of austerity, when trust and cooperation are needed most, their absence results in division, secrecy and vengeance, says a UK academic
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Open data mandates losing support among researchers
Early enthusiasm for compulsory datasets has given way to ‘more qualified views’ on compliance, finds long-running survey
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Oxford drops bespoke entrance exams in admissions shake-up
University to adopt tests used by other leading institutions, spelling end to complex system of internally administered exams
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Bournemouth embraces ‘mission-led’ drive with ageing research
Labour’s push for more research specialisation fits south coast institution’s growing focus on pensioner health, say professors
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‘Linguistic snobbery’ in peer review ‘hurts new researchers’
Native English speakers accused of abusing anonymous feedback to offer ‘biting critiques’ of language rather than scholarship
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More stability beckons for Australian international education
Analyst predicts end to enrolment uncertainty despite pressure on South Asia, onshore demand and postgraduate programmes