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Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen

Students need help to make better course choices and lifelong learners need a flexible application system, says Graeme Atherton

South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise

National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’

The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?

The attempt to improve the country’s universities was stuttering even before the war broke out, says Ararat Osipian

Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader

Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system

The president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology discusses the fallout of a scientific scandal and immigration rules in Sweden

Heads of learned institutions back Putin in the ‘most difficult decision in his life’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

Institutions set to sign up to new guidelines promising to ‘prioritise the interests of applicants’