Australian universities step up pressure over budget cuts
Higher education access provides ‘inoculation against political dislocation’, Universities Australia tells ministers
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Financing two-year degrees: more complicated than you might think
Longer courses could mean bigger loans, which would eat into the government’s trumpeted savings, says Nick Hillman
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Internationalisation key as Asian challengers bid to reap returns
Investment is ‘necessary but not sufficient’ to enable world-class research, which also relies on international collaboration
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UK and Switzerland ‘best in Europe’ at importing top researchers
Research grant data shows patterns of academic migration around Europe – with Italy suffering the biggest brain drain
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These are the 10 most popular academic papers of 2017
Alternative metrics find that research on dieting, PhD mental health and female doctors attracted the most online attention this year
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University-related dreams and nightmares are common among students
How good are your sleep habits? Turns out that more than 80 per cent of students are having university-related dreams, finds new research
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Macron’s climate research programme poaches 18 scientists
Response to US withdrawal from Paris climate accords announces first winners – but has been denounced as a publicity stunt by some French academics
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How the UK HE sector functions as a market, and why it warrants analysis
Rich Sullivan-Jones on why the National Audit Office looked into higher education, and what its report tells us about the HE ‘market’
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The safest universities in England and Wales
The Complete University Guide has revealed the universities with the lowest and highest crime rates in England and Wales
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Colombia launches first doctoral programme in astronomy
PhD course is part of a drive to build country's research in astro-sciences
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Number of female professors in Canada up 28 per cent in six years
Figures also show that female teaching staff earned between 95 and 98 per cent of their male counterparts
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Ireland seeks five-fold rise in students studying languages
As Brexit nears, Dublin plans to upgrade the country's language skills