Burnham’s ‘innovation nation’ plan heaps pressure on UKRI budget
Experts urge basic research funding to be protected as agency tasked with finding £1 billion to pay for regional clusters
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UK misses out on 2026 Nobels as US professors win economics prize
Triumph for experts on fiscal policy takes America’s Nobel tally to four this year as UK-based researchers do not feature in winners list
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Three Gazan students get Irish visas after court challenge
More cases expected to be heard this week after Irish government rejected more than 100 applications from Gaza
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De Montfort to open subsidiary firm and revise academic structure
Leicester-based university starts severance scheme, saying student recruitment shortfall means it has to make savings
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Western Australia merger ‘could pay for itself 16 times over’
While consultant’s report suggests benefits will massively outweigh costs, staff have joined administrators in vowing to ‘vehemently fight’ the proposal
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Will US’ shift away from university-based research catch on?
As Trump directs the NSF to fund organisations tackling national priorities, scholars see echoes of the same approach in the UK and beyond
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Honorary doctorates sold online promise to ‘enhance reputations’
THE investigation uncovers companies offering to award degrees themselves or arrange for one to be bestowed from network of universities worldwide
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Staff training can ‘alleviate sexual harassment risks for PGRs’
Institutions warned PhD students particularly vulnerable to ‘boundary blurring and grooming’
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The Ukrainian centres of excellence project is a non-starter
Even if the Russians hadn’t invaded, the World Bank’s incremental steps were never going to solve Ukrainian HE’s entrenched problems, says Ararat Osipian
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Curtin ‘vigorously opposed’ to Perth ‘mega-university’
Merger of three public universities ‘would create cost, waste and loss of choice’ while ushering ‘complexity rather than competitiveness’
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Former v-c aims to make academia accessible with time travel novel
Specialist in early modern English and theatre, Michael Scott, hopes his project will introduce new audiences to Shakespeare – although admits some colleagues find it all a ‘bit strange’
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Burnham tasks UKRI with diverting £1 billion to regional clusters
UK research agency to play a central role in prime minister’s ‘innovation agenda’, but union seeks clarity on organisation’s budget changes after recent physics cuts
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King’s Brexit thinktank to close after losing funding
Director of UK in a Changing Europe announces it will shut at end of the year