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Southampton Solent pensions row ‘sets concerning precedent’

Union claims that professional service staff have been told to move on to subsidiary firm with less generous pension scheme, or face losing their job

‘Pervasive censorship’ at UK campuses in China, claims report

Chinese Communist Party control of joint ventures potentially violating UK equality and free speech laws, warns thinktank

Keep domestic students in majority, Australian universities told

Focus on educating locals, education minister says, as international enrolments creep over half on some campuses

‘Because I said so’: universities double down on unwritten rules

New education city to ‘accelerate’ India branch campus openings

Company offers universities way into transnational education push with plans to create university hub near Delhi

Merging universities doesn’t increase applications, study finds

Research into impact of Norwegian reforms that saw several institutions join together indicates changes had little impact on perceptions of quality

Fee increase won’t cover ‘radical’ ambition of skills plans

‘More interventionist, more activist’ stance from government will result in deep changes to the sector, but vice-chancellors say key details missing

Administration regime ‘could make university closure more likely’

Formalising process around market exit would make it impossible for institution to come back from the brink, fears UUK chief

Skills White Paper: Is extra oversight a fair price for sector stability?

Questions will be asked about the Office for Students’ fitness to take on extra powers over quality, agents and franchising, says Diana Beech

Skills White Paper: Clarity and coherence or confusion and complexity?

To understand the government’s approach to education, we must await more announcements. Let’s hope they go further, says Nick Hillman

Vocational course graduates offered new pathway on to degrees

Tertiary harmonisation agreement in Canberra sees students guaranteed direct university entry and up to a year’s credit if they want to progress

Victoria latest state to launch university governance inquiry

Parliamentary probe will focus on staff and student representation on university councils

Iranian student loses PhD place after ‘arbitrary security checks’

Researcher says course at Sorbonne did not require clearance, but university decided to conduct screening anyway

Tighter recruitment rules ‘tool to lower student asylum numbers’

Course completion rate restrictions seen as way to tackle issue as peers mull whether new law is needed to stop student claimants

Australian university governance proposals ‘don’t go far enough’

New principles that would require universities to publish executive salaries and conduct v-c performance reviews ‘should be mandatory’