What does a $710 visa application buy? A cut-and-paste rejection
Australian visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession
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English regulator consults on tying funding to quality metrics
Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of £1.5 billion annual budget
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Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke
The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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Interview with Lucy Noakes
Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge
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If abusive lawyers can be banned from practising, why not academics?
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe
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Is it time for Ukraine’s exiled academics to return?
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
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Engineering and physics PhD numbers to fall despite extra funding
Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms
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Mitchell Scholarship ‘paused’ due to lack of sustainable funding
Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says
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US research funding increasingly reliant on corporate agendas
In another edition of gloomy research indicators, major NSF tally finds companies nearing the basic science spending of the federal government
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Speed of requested graduate visa review ‘will limit quality’
Professor leading Migration Advisory Committee warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered
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Cross-strait tensions hamper Chinese recruitment drive in Taiwan
Efforts to recruit students from across the Taiwan Strait seen as attempt to boost sovereignty claim
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Australian diversity efforts ‘lack evidence for effectiveness’
Scientific method can inform an inclusiveness agenda that ‘works’, says former Blair adviser
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Charity watchdog tells Oxford colleges to modernise governance
Commission’s move following Percy affair provoking internal controversy, source claims
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Giving away 30,000 books is harder but more rewarding than I imagined
Libraries no longer accept donations, but targeted giving to colleagues and students is a way for retired academics to keep teaching, says Harvey Graff
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Russell Group expansion ‘worsening UK maths teacher shortage’
Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector