Brunel staff are latest to vote for strike action over job cuts Brunel joins staff members at East Anglia, Newcastle and Dundee to vote for strike action in the past week By Juliette Rowsell 12 February
‘Nothing off the table’ says Edinburgh head on school closures Head of Scotland’s biggest university warns it may need to shutter departments and degree courses to close ‘urgent’ financial gap By Jack Grove 12 February
Budget cuts ‘unprecedented setback for Swiss science’ Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francs By Emily Dixon 12 February
Antisemitic incidents in higher education drop, but stay high Anti-Jewish hatred more likely to be ‘overtly related’ to criticism of Israel on campuses compared with in wider society, says report By Juliette Rowsell 12 February
Autonomy surrendered in ‘enshittification’ of academia – Thrift Former Warwick v-c warns ‘industrialisation’ of universities risks turning academics into ‘drones’, and says fellow leaders have done little to help By Patrick Jack 12 February
Where do UK PhD graduates go? Careers observatory may hold answer Collating information from LinkedIn, ORCID profiles, Hesa and HMRC could solve data black hole over PhD careers, says research director By Jack Grove 12 February
Thousands of UK academics still on ‘unjust’ zero-hours contracts Amid financial pressures, experts warn that the practice is likely to continue for some time By Patrick Jack 12 February
Dutch courses risk ‘disappearing’ as overseas enrolments fall Government drive to cut international recruitment appears to pay dividends, but universities condemn ‘outdated’ approach By Emily Dixon 11 February
‘Don’t judge me on size of research budget,’ Vallance tells MPs Science minister tells Commons committee that he is more interested in maximising impact of science spending than increasing total outlay, as he emphasises need to get visa policies ‘right’ By Jack Grove 11 February
Stay realistic on research grant prospects, UK universities urged With success rates below 10 per cent in a recent funding round, pressure on scholars to secure grants may not be realistic, warns leading economist By Jack Grove 11 February
Unconditional offers fall to lowest level in a decade Some institutions still making thousands of unconditional offers every year, using ‘one of the few recruitment levers still left to pull’ By Patrick Jack 11 February
Scaling up what we already know and have will not secure Europe’s future The new commission’s competitiveness compass is shockingly deficient in its approach to research, says Jan Palmowski By Jan Palmowski 11 February
