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While decline in insecure employment precedes anti-casualisation law, swelling workforces at most institutions contradict claims of ‘tight cost control’

University claims it had sought to hold off making redundancies but says cuts are now ‘unavoidable’ while a sustainable funding settlement is ‘not forthcoming’

University increases annual leave allowance by up to seven days as union continues to campaign for holiday equality

Historic tuition fee rates adjusted to current levels, leaving those who have undertaken traditional three-year programme £9,790 to play with

Organisation to resume role as national agency for study abroad programme after Capita handed oversight of Turing Scheme

Early career publishing success is a reliable guide to whether scientists will succeed long term, concludes international study

Expert says ‘coordination problem’ leaves degree courses out of sync with business needs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

New leader of top business school believes it has been ‘underselling’ itself and needs to show its worth in world buffeted by Trump, AI and continued questioning of MBAs

Notwithstanding other ‘unfinished business’ in international education, government maintains focus on integrity and numbers

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

Cleaners, security guards and technicians to walk out after unions reject below-inflation pay rise

Maximum interest rate to be limited as Westminster government continues to look at wider reforms to controversial student finance system

Teacher-turned-sleuth Stephen Vainker warns rise of chatbot language in journals will further erode school confidence in education faculties

Series of pressures sector faces could trigger a shift from ‘college for all’ toward ‘college for some’, according to futurist

‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

European destinations emerging as ‘legitimate rivals’ for international students because they are improving while US stagnates, argues paper

Unprecedented refusal rates raise fresh doubts over risk rating methodology as officials get tough on ‘non-genuine’ students

New right-wing president eyes reforms to student finance as part of wider austerity measures

Female early career scholars found to be ‘largely absent’ from higher-level governance structures in many European countries

‘Weekend-only’ learners signed contracts in good faith before being suddenly told to repay money through no fault of their own, says NUS head

Most students who work more than 23 hours a week report spending ‘zero minutes’ reading but scholars say time spent in employment not wholly bad academically

Universities set to miss out on promised funding after EU fraud office finds ‘irregularities’ at body that supports HE-business collaborations

Agricultural and environmental research lose out, as scientists criticise ‘dangerous confusion’ of government’s switch to ‘smarter investment’

Increase in visa refusals expected to be used as primary method for addressing asylum concerns for politically important nations

Decades-old programmes among those being lost under new system that prioritises each institution’s traditional strengths

Employment increasingly elusive for foreigners blindsided by Australia’s steep cost of living

Historians say their ability to study material held in ‘mother lode of all 20th-century archives’ diminished by long suspension of vetting requests

Union boss says British institutions should not be opening sites in Africa while UK continues to reject study visa applications at home