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Foreign students no longer a magic bullet for cash-strapped universities as visa changes and pricing wars force leaders to reconsider growth strategies

Contract approved weeks after new leader promised to use in-house expertise and keep consultancy spending to a minimum

Progress towards equality hampered by crackdowns on academic freedom by populist regimes, finds new study

Universities find ways to help scholars keep work going despite widespread destruction of universities and research facilities

Science and Technology Facilities Council chair Michelle Dougherty confirms ‘top-up’ funding will enable more postdoc recruitment than anticipated

Party objects to marketisation of higher education, promising to maintain free tuition and fight for longer graduate visa

University of London institution sets up in Bengaluru tech park

After 13 years running Canterbury Christ Church University, Rama Thirunamachandran blames leaders’ ‘self-interest’ and government pressure for current ‘lose-lose’ funding model

Post-election coalition could see parties collaborate on funding review, but reforms may be hard to negotiate with Westminster

New Rutgers institute part of wider movement to help students enjoy ‘healthy experiences’ with politics

Union opposes new savings target and questions plans for online courses

New vision for higher education in Hungary needed after defeat of populist leader, says head of Central European University

Cost-benefit analysis ‘broadly supportive’ of amalgamation of up to three Perth universities

Institutions capitalise on local interest in research to drive philanthropy, with Griffith University doubling donations over six years

Congress likely to once more block plans to cut billions from agency budgets, but experts fear they will have long-term impact anyway

Treasury to generate £679 million in surplus from last Plan 2 cohort, analysis shows, with graduates paying thousands more than under original system

Australian government declines to follow parliamentary recommendation that rural institutions’ city outposts be investigated

Higher education not the only sector facing a crisis of faith, with lack of confidence most pronounced among non-graduates

Big providers hit with falling occupancy levels and affordability concerns amid changing enrolment patterns

Institution spread across 12 island nations steps up support, as Persian Gulf shockwaves reach Polynesia

Professor who set up publisher four years ago to redirect revenue to those doing quality control says it has been an ‘uphill battle’

Scientists celebrate impact of pioneering space flight, with data and samples gathered predicted to shape studies for decades to come

Representative body for country’s eight institutions loses staff and has functions scaled back with policy work being taken on by in-house teams

New Home Office data shows a continued slide in demand for UK study visas, adding to universities’ financial worries

Academics demand that prestigious gathering is held elsewhere because of attacks on Iran and immigration crackdown

Universities in UK and Ireland encouraged to submit entries across 20 categories as annual showcase revisits Birmingham

Policy has achieved political aims despite damage done to sector, say experts, after Auditor General report finds impact vastly underestimated by officials

Extending UK government technology funding to universities could save sector millions of pounds a year, argues new report

Universities prioritising ‘rapid expansion’ over sustainability threaten survival of the entire English sector, new report warns

Escalating conflict in the Middle East has seen institutions increasingly drawn into the fighting, with material and psychological damage leaving long tail

Conservative manifesto ahead of Holyrood poll promises to promote alternatives to higher education, but declines to row back on totemic fee policy

‘Focused interim action’ required on a sector that politicians say is ‘sacrificing fundamental social benefits in the pursuit of corporate outcomes’

Productivity gains from using technology to mark students’ work a ‘false economy’ given loss of skills and relationships, argues new paper