UAE ‘big winner’ from West’s anti-internationalisation turn
Shorter courses and focus on AI help universities in Gulf increase admissions by 15 per cent in one year
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Don’t base fee policy on narrow definition of ‘elite’, says v-c
BCU leader tells Conservative conference that high-ranking universities ought not to be treated as a ‘template for the rest’
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Academics must resist LinkedIn’s enshittification
The platform that once promised meaningful professional exchange has become performance theatre. We must do better, says Sorin Krammer
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Peter Mathieson to step down as Edinburgh vice-chancellor
Leader of strike-hit Scottish institution will not seek third term of office
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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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Cambridge HR review panel ‘unbalanced’, critics fear
Inquiry to examine how managers treat whistleblowers after damaging tribunal defeat
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Overseas students ‘lack local support due to housing strain’
Reform vote growing even in areas where international students are proven boon for the local economy, former minister warns
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Grant proposals rejected by ‘AI triage’ to be reassessed
CRANE says it will look again at all applications from recent cybersecurity research funding call after backlash against non-human review
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Trio share 2026 medicine Nobel for neuroscience discoveries
US- and Germany-based researchers awarded prize for breakthroughs in emerging field of optogenetics
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Cutting international recruitment staff a false economy, experts warn
Skimping on in-country representation and leadership experience on home campuses can lead to a lack of strategic direction
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Chinese scientists criticise ‘troubling’ UKRI funding withdrawal
Unusual public rebuke from China comes amid questions about whether the country may take over the UK’s leadership role, relinquished earlier this year
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There are no winners in the battle against EDI
By treating equity work as an ideological luxury, institutions are destroying the safety net that everyone will eventually need, says Marcina Singh
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If HE is worth the price, why don’t more Americans believe it?
The focus on the individual benefits of university is, unsurprisingly, not playing well with those who do not go. Sector advocates need to work harder, in an ideologically hostile climate, to...
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Bristol’s ‘gentrification’ needs academic answers, say ex-mayor
Marvin Rees says research-intensive universities must put professors to work on civic challenges caused by academic expansion