University funding and finances

Researchers advocate realignment of international agencies, saying sector cannot wait for the next instalment of China’s trade war

Low expectations scarcely met, as pessimistic border projections and underwhelming future spending estimates trump spending pledges

Visa reform would offset declining domestic enrolments, spread US values and give students the education they want, says Kent Devereaux

With a $300 billion price tag, campaign promise met with scepticism – and long-term optimism

While Australia’s new-look certificates deliver a sugar hit to institutional coffers, experts question the long-term benefits

Australian budget wish list also includes more research funding and extended transition funding for the new fee and subsidy regime

Universities Superannuation Scheme will develop ‘meaningful short-, medium- and long-term targets’ towards carbon neutrality

At least 10 Australian universities in the red, after three Victorian institutions notch A$50 million deficits

Concentrating funding on top universities around Beijing and Shanghai risks alienating students forced to settle for less exalted institutions, researchers say

Credit analysts warn of mass job losses, struggling peripheral businesses and homogenisation of the student mix

President offers states three-to-one split on college aid boost alongside 20 per cent rise in Pell Grant

With wealth and donations becoming concentrated in ever fewer, ever more influential hands, and with some institutions languishing while the elite flourish, Paul Basken asks whether it is time for American colleges and universities to start biting the hand that feeds   

Ratings agency credits lay-offs, casualisation and course cuts for Australian universities’ ‘relatively robust’ position

Losses far worse than they appear on paper, v-c warns, as institution reels from plunging investment and international income

Trudeau backs spending despite deep deficit, yet still disappoints academic researchers

Polling accompanied by call for Westminster government to set out more details of lifetime learning plans

Action is clearly needed to shore up the USS, but the trustee needs to be more flexible, says Alistair Jarvis

The woeful environmental record of the UK’s research-intensive universities illustrates a lack of leadership and incentives to cut emissions, says Bill Spence

London Higher says government proposal will ‘take away a lifeline’ for city’s universities

Three countries even received double-digit increases in 2020, but with so much new government debt, some fear cuts could be in store further down the line

While concern has centred on vulnerable flows from China, an Indian exodus could prove more devastating

The pandemic experience shows universities of all kinds are willing to be partners for policy delivery, says Debra Humphris

Salary boost might be more effective than legal crackdowns in thwarting international recruiting and funding approaches, argues Oklahoma representative

Higher education priorities include racial and economic diversity, and science

Australian university shrugs off Covid’s financial wrecking ball and even manages to bolster its insurance against future ‘shocks’

Infrastructure plan poised to bring millions of new students as well as billions of research dollars

Huntington accepts separation from Laurentian, but Thorneloe sees danger to students and faculty nationwide

Katherine Fleming tells THE event New York University would ‘turn into a gigantic teaching institution for data science’ if it responded to outside pressure

Long-term public and economic health depends on empowering universities, businesses and health systems to work together, says Michael Spence

First institutional accounts reveal mixed results, with many institutions weathering the Covid storm but some plunging into deficit

A strategic rejection of digital instruction is akin to France’s short-sighted attempt to prevent invasion in the 1930s, says Robert Zaretsky

Province appears determined to deploy widely criticised tactic once Covid eases

With overseas enrolments hitting the buffers during the pandemic, debate rages over whether higher education’s excessive reliance on this income stream is self-inflicted – and how universities can keep themselves on the financial rails in future. John Ross reports

Regulator goes ahead with new guidance despite opposition from sector, citing impact of Covid-19 on sector finances

More pain in store for Australian universities, as bankruptcy beckons the colleges and agencies that scaffold their international operations

Further protests hit university campuses as pressure on ‘missing middle’ mounts

Universities face ban on deals with foreign partners that lack ‘institutional autonomy’, as they wrestle with similar demons

Academics say universities are in the dark over their future funding levels, and ‘compulsory’ higher education policy creates overly high expectations for students

Brussels-backed pilot project has borne fruit, but leaders say creating ‘seamless mobility’ across continent has been even more expensive and bureaucratic than expected

Amid the economic ravages inflicted by the coronavirus, the EU has agreed a huge stimulus package. But while research in some countries looks set for a transformational boost, it may be a different story for teaching

Government looking at ways to reduce cost of system as pandemic pushes enrolments up and loan repayments down

Kent says financial outlook is now better after improvement in student recruitment   

Measure doubles previous support and sets stage for student loan cancellations

Educational link ‘as bad as it has ever been’, with billions of dollars at stake for universities

New president sets ambitious financial and internationalisation goals

Sector leaders acknowledge ‘errors’ but deny deliberate withholding of pay

Selling ‘the uni experience’ has helped put bums on seats and cash in coffers, but now it’s providing grist for refund-seeking students, says Madeleine Davies

We want commercial success but can’t build it on an empty research larder, university lobby tells Canberra

Wayne State president calls major research institution inappropriate destination for Hispanic-focused funding

Observers detect message that caution on criticism is price of increased funding, but suspect balancing act will be difficult to sustain

The brutal cost-cutting demanded by Covid-19 may finally see intercollegiate athletics cut down to size, says Bruce Svare

The pandemic has prompted dire predictions about international student enrolment at anglophone universities. But will those fears come to pass? Is there an alternative to standard international education? And how much do universities really spend on recruitment agents? Ellie Bothwell reports

As classes resume on Australian campuses, anxieties persist about the year ahead – domestically, and particularly internationally

New funding should be used to lure researchers from industry and overseas, experts say

Too many trustees misunderstand or forget their fiduciary responsibilities and become co-opted by institutional presidents, says James Koch

A global recession will accelerate the latest shift away from high-cost study destinations, say Janet Ilieva and David Pilsbury

Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible

Top-ranked Melbourne the latest to declare a surplus in the face of pandemic

Institutions in Double First Class initiative poaching professors from rivals and creating ‘shadow’ academic posts, says study

Mushrooming university may need to limit its activities to balance the books, new president suggests