£500 million boost to help modernise university estates National Wealth Fund and Lloyds pledge to back environmental projects that tackle challenges universities face in retrofitting campuses By Tom Williams 28 May
ERC funding settings are creating a bubble of unsustainable careers The availability of ERC grants falls off a cliff in your 40s, and in most countries there are few comparable alternatives, says Cristina Muñoz Pinedo By Cristina Muñoz Pinedo 28 May
UK research funding bounces back after return to Horizon Europe Findings strengthen case that UK should agree early access to next framework programme as soon as possible, say v-cs By Seher Asaf 27 May
Jo Grady calls for ‘emergency’ HE funding review UCU leader tells annual congress that sector faces threats like never before and issues cannot be fixed under current model By Juliette Rowsell 27 May
News Talks podcast: Are mergers the answer to UK HE’s woes? With King’s College London and Cranfield University planning to join forces, we discuss whether mergers are a sensible way forward for UK universities beset by financial challenges By Miranda Prynne 27 May
Sussex’s plans to cut 200 jobs ‘causing strain and uncertainty’ Union fears remaining staff will face even heavier workloads as 500 jobs have already been lost over past two years By Juliette Rowsell 27 May
Eight in 10 say repaying student loan ‘harder than expected’ Survey of current and prospective loan holders finds ‘massive frustration’, with system putting off future students By Tom Williams 27 May
Specialist providers buck downturn due to ‘limits on expansion’ Smaller English institutions among those faring best in current financial crisis because they ‘never had the fat years’ By Helen Packer 27 May
All Manchester students to go out on placement as part of degrees Universities must provide more of the types of experiences that would once have been gained during first graduate job, says vice-chancellor By Tom Williams 26 May
Turkey reverses move to close university after student protests Istanbul Bilgi University handed reprieve after authorities abandon attempts to close it over concerns about parent company By Seher Asaf 26 May
OfS could charge large universities £50K more under new proposals New fee structure for English regulator seeks to relieve ‘higher burden’ being placed on smaller providers By Helen Packer 26 May
Polish academics call for research funding to be trebled Public science sector at risk of disappearing in next decade without big injection of funds, politicians warned By Seher Asaf 26 May
