Cardiff staff vote to strike as axe hangs over 400 academic jobs

Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures

Universities offered little in eve-of-election Australian budget

Cost-of-living help unveiled for students, staff and graduates, but sector remains all but empty-handed

Dundee cash crisis probe to examine ‘surprise’ deterioration

External team to investigate why financial concerns that have led to more than 600 planned job losses were not raised sooner

Tech entrepreneur Tom Adeyoola to lead Innovate UK

Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair

Education department reeling after half its staff laid off

Redundancy tally at debt-struck Wollongong set to triple

Up to 185 more jobs in the frame, as restructuring of university switches from teaching to operations

Go-slow internal research fraud probes ‘avoid external scrutiny’

Institutions taking ‘as long as they like’ over investigations to protect reputations, according to Australian research integrity campaigner

Vetting call over ‘asshole’ PhD examiners, ‘trial-by-fire’ vivas

Survey of UK doctoral examiners reveals disquiet over problematic PhD examiners keen to initiate emotionally charged intellectual exchanges

Influx of ‘unfunded students’ feared at New Zealand universities

Tally of unsubsidised students could reach thousands, representative body warns, after enrolments surpass projections

It is too soon to create positions for émigré US academics

Conditions in many other countries remain far worse. And denuding US institutions of their best researchers is the last thing they need, says Luc Sels

Kent staff seek guarantees over workloads in week-long strike

UCU urges management to rule out compulsory redundancies as it stages walkout at institution hit by several waves of restructuring

Report ‘material changes’ to QR-linked research, institutions told

Bureaucracy fears as new Research England rules push for ‘robust data’ on where quality-related funding is spent

Fraud experts to probe ‘targeted abuse’ of student loans

Bridget Phillipson flags ‘wide-scale organised exploitation’ as she announces new measures to combat fraud connected to franchised provision

Students struggle to get universities to back sanctuary campuses

Vice-chancellor pay debate overblown, Senate inquiry told

Seven-figure salaries needed to attract top talent, universities argue, but staff apprehend ballooning executive remuneration with ‘disbelief and anger’