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Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

Number of students studying UK courses abroad set to hit 1 million before end of the decade

Lingering financial pressures mean country is ¡®not out of the woods¡¯ despite strong showing this year, expert warns

UK offers reassuring familiarity for Charles Darwin¡¯s TNE ¡®push¡¯ but vice-chancellor says its MBA courses will be unlike anything already available

Specialist institutions could be subsumed without high-level oversight of sector consolidation, MPs warned

Elite Asian universities stagnate and US declines in ¡®moment of great flux¡¯ for global higher education   

Nation¡¯s high research quality score is in spite of second-lowest share of internationally co-authored papers  

Female researchers need ¡®action¡¯, not just ¡®advice¡¯, says high-flying scientist

Irene Tracey stresses importance of teaching students courtesy and respect to model what ¡®good disagreement¡¯ looks like

Curtailing competition, reducing waste and drawing more on industry and philanthropic sources seen as ways to fill gaps left by NIH retreat

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi honoured for development of metal-organic frameworks

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ¡®debt trap degrees¡¯ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

Russell Group calls for long-term partnerships to be secured amid political uncertainty

Rapid increase in institutions allowing time off welcomed as a vital step toward supporting well-being, although academics warn it also raises questions about staffing, implementation and potential misuse

New building that brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

Sethuraman Panchanathan says research funder and scientists must improve ¡®storytelling¡¯ as agency faces $5 billion cuts

Student fees to drop by €500 ¨C but end of €1,000 government contribution means total payment will rise

Demonstrating research impact more clearly will reverse falling public support for higher education, argues scholar turned education minister

Hundreds gather in London despite the prime minister telling them to stay at home on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel

Tories should allow top institutions to increase tuition fees and encourage others to get off ¡®mediocrity escalator¡¯, says former science minister

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis share 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum tunnelling

UCU Scotland members back taking action over job cuts plans, while staff at Nottingham reject deal that would have postponed any compulsory redundancies

Voters more likely to support pro-immigration messages for the R&D sector when they are ¡®inspiring¡¯ and don¡¯t paint the UK as ¡®passive¡¯

Institutional autonomy ¡®not threatened¡¯ by proposal to more than halve executive pay, academics say, as universities insist councils should maintain control

A year after joining the ¡®MIT of the Middle East¡¯, the former King¡¯s College London president reflects on the need for scholars to align their research with national priorities and the joys of leading a ¡®city community of scholars¡¯

Andy Burnham says universities ¡®at the heart¡¯ of his plans for growth of Manchester¡¯s economy

Scientists who identified body¡¯s ¡®security guards¡¯ that protect cells when others are being attacked first to be honoured in this season¡¯s awards

New chief executive of UK Research and Innovation sets out how relationship with universities could change

Taxpayer and students losing out as a result of failure to tackle ¡®low-quality¡¯ higher education, according to Neil O¡¯Brien

Sudden cancellation ¡®devastating¡¯ as financial pressures force universities across the country to close programmes

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

Policymakers need to understand inequity at primary and secondary level ¨C and between genders ¨C to make tertiary education genuinely inclusive, concludes study