International ranking 2025: Hong Kong extends its lead
China’s neighbours benefit in list of the world’s most international universities, as giant expands its?network
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Crick scientist-turned-Labour MP on supporting academic mothers
Tropical disease researcher and parliamentarian Lauren Sullivan talks about difficulties of returning to the lab after a career break, juggling family, science and politics, and why Dundee’s life...
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Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from Trump edicts’
Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ‘environmental justice’, ‘gender ideology’ and China links
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Job fears grow as Research England models ?100 million QR cut
Loss of almost 8 per cent of mainstream quality-related funding?feared amid concerns that Spring Statement?will deepen sector funding crisis
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The European Commission must back down over its research funding plans
Ministers and MEPs are right to insist that FP10 should focus on much more than just immediate economic priorities, says Jan Palmowski
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UCU: v-cs ‘exploiting’ funding crisis to make ‘vampiric’ job cuts
Union members?hold Parliament rally urging ministers to bail out sector
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Assessments face ‘standardisation’ as cuts hit academic workload
Students face more ‘formulaic’ and automated tests, as staff are left unable to cope with growing class sizes
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Domestic student enrolments on the rise in Australia
Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world
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Staff pushed into early retirement face pensions ‘cliff edge’
Staff in their late fifties offered voluntary severance may feel that they have no choice but to accept, but it could cost them thousands of pounds in pension payments
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Ten-year budgets can boost national R&D aims – and reduce precarity
Longer-term funding isn’t a panacea but there is plenty of evidence that it can make a difference, say Grace Gottlieb and?Matt Davis
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Cardiff green-lights Kazakhstan campus despite job cuts at home
Cash-strapped institution confirms it will not be investing upfront in new Central Asian outpost
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Bradford threatened with strike over job cuts and course closures
Union fears as many as 300 jobs could go at Yorkshire university, plus courses in chemistry and film and television