Nine in 10 British Academy postdocs get permanent academic jobs

Strong career outcomes of fellowship holders underlines importance of early career support, says academy

University looks like ‘bad bet’ to teenagers in ‘cold spots’

Doncaster focus groups find widespread scepticism that cost of a degree will be outweighed by career benefits

Unions’ focus ‘to remain on jobs’ despite ‘insulting’ pay offer

Threat of strike ballot still hanging over UK pay talks but expert says low offer will be greeted with ‘sullen resignation’

‘You cannot strengthen a country’s future by weakening its universities’

The shock victory of Geert Wilders’ far-right party in the Netherlands’ 2023 election has led to reduced funding for higher education and research, curbs on international student numbers and concerns...

Changes to AHRC doctoral funding are right and necessary

UKRI’s largest proportional spender on PhDs will ensure transparency, access and geographical equity via its new schemes, says Christopher Smith

De Montfort University to cut 80 posts to save £8 million

Redundancies blamed on ‘unprecedented financial challenges’ including ‘rising costs, flat or declining income and uncertainty in student recruitment’

Families want rapid change as suicide review says support lacking

Grief ‘compounded by a lack of transparency’, parents tell two-year investigation into student deaths at UK universities

Imperial targets joint research projects with new India base

UK foreign secretary hails partnership as way of strengthening scientific ties between the two countries

Scottish finances drop 92 per cent with nine institutions in red

Increased staff and other operating costs blamed for ‘significant deterioration’, with spending on restructuring ballooning

Pre-college programmes shift focus in ‘anti-DEI’ era

Heavy AI use could wreck net zero goals, universities warned

Hidden environmental impact of roll-out of AI bots and assistants not well understood, experts warn, with much of it outsourced to big technology companies

Overseas student attendance rules ‘skewing face-to-face classes’

Problems arise when citizenship rather than pedagogy determines delivery mode, critics say

Course cancellations ‘inevitable’ after ‘body blow’ funding cuts

Surprise reduction in funding for specialist provision will spark ‘brand new financial crisis brewed entirely in Whitehall’, critics warn

Cutting DEI from business school accreditation is not just semantics

The AACSB’s removal of ‘politically charged’ terms risks hampering efforts to create a more just society, say Martyna Śliwa and Ajnesh Prasad

Universities ‘using wrong frame of thinking’ on efficiencies

Vocabulary driven by policymakers doesn’t work for sector where outputs are not always measurable, conference hears