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Harvard’s grants frozen after it resists Trump’s demands

Is admissions Trump’s next higher education target?

Universities urge stability with UK graduate visa at risk

Alarm that immigration targets may trump universities’ pleas as government mulls new policies

Ethnic diversity of UK academics still lags behind student body

Institutions mustn’t let diversity efforts go backwards as funding crisis grows, vice-chancellor says

Reconsider reliance on US tech companies, universities warned

European universities urged to review dependence on Amazon, Google and Microsoft as Trump policies expose vulnerabilities

Are Australian universities failed by too-short election cycles?

In recent years, politicians have flip-flopped in their attitudes and policies towards higher education, amid controversy over ‘woke’ agendas and the social effects of immigration. Ahead of next...

Building connections with AI industry is vital to keeping degrees relevant

Universities must also be flexible enough to facilitate continuous course adaptation as technology advances, say Caroline and Lee Clewley

Technological universities ‘losing talent’ without professorships

Irish institutions hope new employment grade could help retain staff and drive research

Boycotts and lawsuits could help US universities ‘fight’ Trump

Resistance strategies emerge as White House attempts to make elite universities fall in line

Cardiff union goes ‘nuclear’ with marking boycott plus strikes

University and College Union disputes institution’s claim to have significantly reduced job cuts figure

Job losses set to soar at regional Queensland university

Staff blame recent bout of recruitment as USQ prepares to cut more than one in 10 workers

US universities fear ripple effects of draining the PhD pool

China research spending outstrips US despite faltering economy

Tariffs and further economic barriers only likely to drive spend on science and technology higher, analysts predict, amid hopes innovation can kickstart recovery

Will unions’ new wave of anti-cuts strikes change anything?

Activists say action is ‘keeping vice-chancellors at the negotiating table’ but experts believe reversing overall direction of travel is unlikely

Defer chunk of v-c pay until long-term impact known, inquiry told

Withholding hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars seen as a way of enabling ‘clawback’ of future losses resulting from ‘unobserved risky behaviour or malpractice’