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Continuing on current path will lead to course closures, reduced research investment and mergers, says former Sheffield Hallam vice-chancellor

Institutions may be hoping to stay under the radar as parties clash over policy, given danger sector will come under further attack

Founder of Black Female Academics’ Network discusses working in industry and academia, being a workaholic undergraduate and why Caribbean and Yorkshire values are strikingly similar

Collaboration between sector and government key to success of major reviews, Hepi webinar hears

Some students saw their university fees triple as the government attempted to lift the benchmark for the first time in five years

Nation’s main higher education grouping sees lessons from religious focus during time of political pressure, while stirring some cautions and even alarm

Economic carnage looms as Australian political parties adopt unity ticket in treating overseas learners as cannon fodder

Influx of MPs who have worked in universities could help the sector win battles and reset the debate on access, say analysts

Reports mount of academics not having contracts renewed in apparent retaliation for anti-war protests, as observers highlight precarity as key factor in restricting free speech

Shadow science secretary accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘talking down’ English higher education with attack on ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees

About 99 per cent of events and speakers were still approved last year, a similar proportion to previous years

Irish regulator expressed ‘serious concerns’ over university’s multimillion-euro deficit earlier this year

New research, endorsed by former prime minister Tony Blair, says UK needs to increase budget by a quarter to tackle ‘incoherent’ system

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers say they are often subject to supervisors’ whims, leaving some feeling exploited

Contrary to claims that holding vote out of term time will silence them, student voters may end up having more influence in rare July poll

Universities latest to see industrial disputes ramped up over plans to lose hundreds of jobs

Kamna Patel accuses Research England of ‘indulging’ science secretary’s ‘malevolent’ attack over Gaza comments

Major losses for the sector include the end of storied Philadelphia arts institution and retrenchment at leading Jewish-focused campus

New agreement on salaries increases likelihood that high-profile campuses will create a small league of top-dollar programmes, cutting revenues for all others

Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to homeland as leaders expand national security laws

Institutions see steep drops in proportion of fee income paid by UK students amid continued expansion into international markets

Getting up and moving around during classes leads to increased attention and more enjoyment, research finds

Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success

Inventor’s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process

Malawi’s first female university president Address Malata reflects on shaking up a male-dominated institution and why having more women on the faculty matters

V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’

Incoming right-wing government plans to reduce spending by €1 billion, just as efforts to reduce precarity and overwork were starting to have an effect

Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report

First budget of new governing coalition seen as ‘neutral’ for universities as small increases in funding set to be offset by inflation

Number of English-medium degrees on offer outside traditional anglophone destinations increases by 48 per cent in five years

Labour’s official science slate is dull but radical moves to reform research funding and engage industry could be close, experts believe

Government proposes full-cost tuition plus application fees for non-EU applicants, while aiming for international recruitment increase

Alumnus and trustee to become Ivy League institution’s first non-interim female leader after narrowly avoiding faculty censure at Stony Brook

Unite branch leads walkout, saying industrial relations in union are ‘broken’, just hours after general secretary delivers unity message in opening speech

Universities are not ‘speaker’s corner’ and governments should not impose ‘diktats about what we do on campus’, New Zealand forum hears

Tory plans to close low-performing degrees to fund apprenticeships ‘miss the mark’, says UK sector

Lower work rights cut-off would have excluded most doctoral graduates, critics warned

Late responses to PhD applicant enquiries and lack of signposting might contribute to poor ethnic minority representation at doctoral level, researchers say

Academic exploration of leading university’s traditions uncovers dispossession, eugenics and grave robbing

Chinese leader calls for greater alignment of degree programmes with the country’s workplace needs

In congress address, general secretary pledges to work to end in-house industrial dispute and to ‘hold Labour’s feet to the fire’

Few remaining obstacles for one of the biggest university amalgamations in history

‘No easy answers’ in what has become ‘a conflict about the conflict’

University leader turned Palestinian Authority minister pledges to rebuild destroyed campuses

Coalition agreement involves major cuts to research and university funding alongside harsh new measures for students

Universities face a delicate balancing act between ‘mob veto’ and safety obligations, says free speech advocate

Report into scandal highlights danger of relying on singular sources of knowledge, in contrast to inquiry itself, which utilised vast range of expertise to get to the bottom of what happened

THE analysis finds some UK universities had fewer women in the top pay bracket in 2022-23 than they did in 2014-15

Department of Education says data shows return to the pattern of consistent growth observed before Covid-19

While administrators, faculty, students and police get main attention in protests, those paying the bills – especially in wealthier families – pursue more decisive roles

Mosa Moshabela says he will seek to learn from the challenges faced by his predecessors

‘Good data means better policy’, educationalists stress

Surrey was one of only a handful of UK institutions that was found to have a negative flow of cash in its 2021-22 financial statements

Shadow education secretary puts focus on tweaking student finance and encouraging knowledge exchange as election looms

As politicians stage another public hearing to shame academia, university leaders display new level of resistance, joined by students at Harvard and California system

Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to ask for return of mainland students to island universities but installation accompanied by rising cross-Strait tensions

Emotions and rhetoric run high, but student campers are packing up

Plans to move University Post to intranet amid cost-cutting criticised by journalists

Members of Oxford Action for Palestine accessed office of vice-chancellor Irene Tracey

Key post-study work rights to be kept under review but reprieve puts off any changes at least until after coming general election