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Universities urged to collaborate on areas such as the language they use in admissions to ensure accessibility for non-traditional students

Students struggling to find good jobs while employers say they cannot address skills shortages, Andreas Schleicher highlights

No one has come up with a better way of convincing the Treasury to bring back maintenance grants, skills minister tells social mobility event

Appointment of Kathleen Fisher to lead UK ‘high-risk, high-reward’ funding body will raise questions on shift towards defence research

Even though minor downswing could be no more than ‘statistical noise’, governance inquisitor chides sector for ‘stunning’ lack of curiosity

Assistant minister doubles down on integrity measures, saying those who doubt the government’s determination ‘have rocks in their heads’

End of ‘boom times’ for Canadian institutions could prompt them to be more adventurous, with ‘riskier’ recruitment and more branch campuses likely, say experts

People climbing down the qualification ladder shows that higher education has not gone to plan, study suggests

R&D funders urged to work together to boost global standing of both countries in wake of new treaty

Dundalk Institute of Technology to join forces with Queen’s University Belfast to create new opportunities for student mobility and skills development

Decades-long freeze on London weighting is making PhD study unaffordable despite recent record stipend increase, student groups warn

‘Profound sustainability challenge’ forces Csiro to ‘deprioritise’ research fields to focus on key areas

University promises new school will produce graduates who are ‘ethically grounded, clinically outstanding and technologically adept’

Cross-party committee calls for higher household income threshold for maximum student support loans as more struggle to afford university

As shelves fill up and costs mount, new scheme allows librarians to discard underused books if more than seven copies exist elsewhere

While staff protest efforts to cut hybrid working arrangements at Western institutions, university employees in Asia have long been back in the office full-time

Cost to sector ‘significant’ as reports say chancellor planning to limit tax-free contributions

Labour to encourage people granted asylum to better assimilate and support themselves by introducing pathway to enrol in university

Evidence level system encourages scams while making little difference to institutional obligations, critic says

Snapshot figures from more than 800 institutions show more than half suffering from declining enrolments

Conversations around cheating ‘misguided’ because students want technology to assist learning, not give them the answers, education lead at tech giant says

‘Little universities can do’ to stop Beijing interference as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic mull enhanced restrictions

Proposed ‘one city, one faculty’ approach, reduced degree length and hostility towards international students prompt alarm

First post-Covid increase in early undergraduate applications among mature students shows adults are rethinking their options in times of economic crisis

Legal restrictions prevented Australian universities from sharing financial documents despite completing merger, former deputy vice-chancellor reveals

Increase in projects featuring ‘progressive discourse’ likely to fuel criticism that academia is too left wing, study warns

Australia should focus on training required number of fluent experts and leave basic translation to AI, Asia expert says

Universities complaining about over-regulation should stop committing ‘own goals’ with franchising and grade inflation, says new OfS chair who believes Labour reforms can pave way to stronger sector

Medical training organisations write to health secretary Wes Streeting as call for evidence takes ‘narrow focus’

Many universities already factor school violence records into admissions ahead of nationwide roll-out but scholars fear move reinforces inequalities

Industrial action also planned at University of Derby as rows over employment conditions deepen

Wider range of graduate outcomes must be considered over longer time horizon, say panellists at THE event

University leaders should advocate for grants to be diverted to early years education to reduce later attainment gaps, conference hears

Regulator indicates it will act when financial pressures impact student choice and ‘supply of critical skills’

Proposed integrity bill risks making it almost impossible for new entrants to launch, starving sector of innovation, experts warn

Tension within union over whether pay dispute is a distraction, or helpful in galvanising branches trying to halt job cuts

Lack of supervisors and ‘uneven’ quality ‘deterring’ students, paper says, arguing that radical overhaul is needed

Chinese researchers worst affected as hundreds excluded from influential ranking because of ‘extreme’ level of authorship

‘Clever’ linkage to maintenance grants could encourage Scottish policymakers to adopt Westminster proposal, conference hears

Swinburne’s Pollaers reportedly asked for more money while confronting governance inquiry fuelled by resentment over overpaid leaders

Academics running modules on US leader must grapple with fast-changing dynamics and the fear of provoking the world’s most powerful man

New health and welfare payments mandated in country’s budget will leave institutions ‘unable to fulfil their mission’, scholars say

Link between higher education and higher earnings weakens across many OECD countries, showing need to strengthen alternative options

Timetable for phasing out testing on animals for antibody research and drug analysis is too demanding and may risk patient safety, argues expert

Innovation expert who previously held senior roles at RMIT back Down Under after four-year stint in West Midlands

Academics claim teaching practices at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University fail to live up to UK standards, with concerns over class sizes, grade inflation and language use highlighting the challenges of delivering British degrees in China

Strong levels of ‘instinctive’ backing for UK research cannot be taken for granted given lack of personal connection, warns science campaign group

UK delegation to Beijing paves way for ‘cautious, sensible and informed international science cooperation’ says minister

New approach rewards institutions that ‘broadly’ conform to government quotas

Focus switches to lifelong learning, TNE and online education as UK schools seek to overcome financial and demographic challenges

Hands-off councils said to have contributed to ‘governance crisis’ that Australian sector ‘needed and in many respects deserved’

Birmingham professor to temporarily oversee access and participation at English regulator following departure of John Blake

Government and business should pick up the tab for national priorities, says opposition leader turned university boss

President has criticised student debt for being too high but his attempts at reform have focused on removing benefits for people doing jobs he disagrees with

More than half of deans say parent universities want them to enrol more students, as leaders express concern over ‘growing disparities’

Slow departure of researchers for the East has increased as environment in US becomes more hostile

D66 election victory encouraging, sector leaders say, but financial and demographic pressures remain

University proposes to merge existing administrative functions into central hub but unions fear move will add to ‘enormous pressures’

Former teacher steps down after one term, having overseen revamp in widening participation efforts

Federal government must ‘take proper responsibility’ for a university sector ‘which in practice it controls’, MPs told