Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from Trump edicts’
Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ‘environmental justice’, ‘gender ideology’ and China links

Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ‘environmental justice’, ‘gender ideology’ and China links

Loss of almost 8 per cent of mainstream quality-related funding feared amid concerns that Spring Statement will deepen sector funding crisis

Ministers and MEPs are right to insist that FP10 should focus on much more than just immediate economic priorities, says Jan Palmowski

Union members hold Parliament rally urging ministers to bail out sector



Students face more ‘formulaic’ and automated tests, as staff are left unable to cope with growing class sizes

Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world

Staff in their late fifties offered voluntary severance may feel that they have no choice but to accept, but it could cost them thousands of pounds in pension payments

Longer-term funding isn’t a panacea but there is plenty of evidence that it can make a difference, say Grace Gottlieb and Matt Davis

Cash-strapped institution confirms it will not be investing upfront in new Central Asian outpost

Union fears as many as 300 jobs could go at Yorkshire university, plus courses in chemistry and film and television


Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear

Board minutes show research council leaders assessing options including ‘NHS Catapult’ as they seek to meet government priorities