Europe

Funding emerges as biggest challenge to helping staff and students set up businesses, as community outreach work ‘nosedives’

Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett

Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’

Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative

Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group’s manifesto

Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants

Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel

Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly, study suggests

With helping students and graduates the likely priority, universities will have to make concessions for a share of any spare cash, says Jonathan Simons

Former minister wary of ‘policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse’

Technology’s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ‘human skills’ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London

Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder