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Alex Salmond’s famous anti-fees pledge remains cast in stone. But with the debacle at Dundee lending credence to the view that Scottish universities are in an even deeper financial hole than their English counterparts, some suggest it is time for students to help haul them out. Tom Williams reports

Fees rising and scholarships disappearing as visa constraints reduce incentive to keep students’ costs low

Institutions still waiting for a budget to be set for financial year amid Javier Milei’s unprecedented austerity drive

Cash recovered from alleged money-laundering pays for development of new institution in Islamabad that prime minister hopes will ‘rival Oxford’

Regulator says English sector finances ‘appear to be towards the most pessimistic end’ of predictions, with risks escalating

‘Cultural shift’ needed in universities to better recognise work academics do with local communities, Lords committee hears

Union branch at redundancy-hit institution to stage one-day walkout

Ten university cities expected to participate in strikes ahead of April Senate vote on budget

Institution would have run out of money by end of June without additional Holyrood support, leaders tell MSPs

Union members hold Parliament rally urging ministers to bail out sector

Cash-strapped institution confirms it will not be investing upfront in new Central Asian outpost

New education plan aims to create four city hubs and expand enrolment as youth population swells

Extra £10 million in funding made available to universities such as Dundee to ‘navigate current financial challenges’

Professional services staff most affected in move unions warn will ‘make life worse for students’

Education committee announces investigation into state of funding in the sector and its impact on staff and students

Staff and politicians fear ‘nothing is safe’ at Scottish university looking to cut more than 600 jobs

New tertiary regulator outlines wider vision in strategic plan as it seeks to get to grips with scale of cuts across sector

Largest cuts yet in UK higher education’s year of redundancies accompanied by promise of external investigation into ‘what went wrong’

Passing five-figure milestone would only involve a small monetary rise but could it change the psychology of the debate around higher education?

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

Inflation-busting rise demanded despite thousands of job cuts across sector, and as University and College Union’s own staff vote to strike again

Institutions asked to provide interim financial returns amid rising tide of redundancies

VET needs a boost, researcher argues, amid counter-claims that higher education is on the back foot

Most institutions in trouble can find balance between income and expenditure on their own, according to prospective new OfS chair 

Jane Norman eyes more focused approach for university after decades of rapid growth, with new financial paradigm forcing ‘hard conversations’

Union says Westminster must follow devolved administrations in offering additional funding amid mounting bloodletting

The UK cannot enter an era of heightened geopolitical instability without high levels of social resilence, say Katharine Wright and Megan Armstrong

Academics ask why university needs to cut jobs when its income hit £1.4 billion last year

Institutions generally accept budgetary demands to return unspent grants but warn long-term cuts could damage competitiveness

Government commission advocates for intervention in downsizing of higher education sector to avoid regional disparity

Government announces 2 per cent cut to university budget in efforts to row back public spending

Advocate more judiciously, sector representatives urged, as they demand more money to ‘do our job for the country’

Principal warns of ‘radical university-wide actions, which will lead to a smaller staff base’

The deadline for most 2023-24 financial accounts was the end of December

Academic spin-outs have risen over the past decade, supported by a network of university-affiliated venture funds

Institutions caught in a ‘perfect storm’ owing to reductions in government spending and international student restrictions

Vice-chancellors say ‘unsustainable’ model needs fixing but changes must be balanced against goals of increasing access and stopping brain drain

More job cuts likely as deficits mount owing to decreased grant funding and cap on international students

India’s opening up to overseas outposts has injected new life into a form of transnational education that many observers had considered to be moribund. But will the clutch of early adopters blaze a successful trail for others to follow? And what exactly would that look like? Helen Packer reports

Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds

Proposal to merge maths and computer science at under-fire institution risks damaging one of its ‘crown jewels’, says open letter

‘Real challenges only now emerging,’ says John Cater in paper looking back over decades-long university career

Lecturers fear rising staff-student ratios will exacerbate ‘gulf’ between elite institutions and the rest, and create unmanageable workloads

Universities looking to lose nearly 300 roles between them as financial challenges take their toll

UCU members clash over how to respond to wave of job cuts, with decision on whether to take industrial action over pay imminent

Domestic postgraduate provision looms as an alternative to out-of-favour international education, but it’s a tough market with questionable returns

The benefits of a strong brand are accruing for universities and academics alike. Jack Grove explores why reputation matters – and examines the latest results in the list of the world’s most prestigious universities

Academics at Liverpool say ‘unexpected’ announcement has left people ‘shocked’

University latest passion project for ex-politician who specialises in ‘institutions that are worth keeping’

Holyrood generosity contrasts with Westminster intransigence over Teachers’ Pension Scheme

Head of Scotland’s biggest university warns it may need to shutter departments and degree courses to close ‘urgent’ financial gap

Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francs 

Cuts seen as inevitable but academics urge restraint in upcoming budget

Regular increases in what students in England pay should be accompanied by more public money for ‘strategic priorities’, Universities UK tells ministers ahead of spending review

Financial benefits of increasing domestic recruitment ‘now negligible’, according to leaked document

Skills minister says upcoming White Paper will seek to address ‘fragmentation’ between further and higher education

Expenses spike despite dwindling student numbers, with signs the gap could widen

Academics warn of ‘culture of fear’ at pre-eminent Welsh institution amid plans to axe courses and hundreds of jobs

Legal and regulatory issues push some English institutions into taking financial hit of not increasing fees

Pressure mounts on Welsh government to intervene as Cardiff posts UK sector’s biggest deficit yet