If Horizon Europe’s brand is so valuable, let’s work to protect it

Now that the framework programme’s integrity appears assured, it’s time to address the details – together, says Jan Palmowski

Attempts at change frustrated in implementation stage, says Blake

Repeated efforts to bring about ‘high-level systematic reform’ in English higher education flounder without buy-in from those doing the doing, says access tsar

University of Florida board rejects Santa Ono as next president

Graduate divide among UK voters adds to Tory ‘extinction’ threat

Conservatives squeezed by ‘full-fat Farage’ on the right and an increasingly graduate-heavy electorate on the left, says leading political scientist

Increasing employer training spend ‘urgent’, says Labour MP

Politician calls on businesses to bear more of the costs of upskilling the workforce as universities wait for lifelong learning policy details

Academic jobs on the line in Macquarie restructure

Savings only part of the motivation for university’s ‘realignment’ to ‘remain relevant’, but union says management wants the humanities ‘burned’

Where international students in the US stand now

Beware ‘rushed’ teaching changes amid financial crisis, staff say

Universities eye ‘block teaching’ as way of attracting more students but staff at places that have made the switch warn it is having the opposite effect

America’s universities must embrace – not efface – indigenous knowledge

Even in a political climate hostile to diversity, Indigenous people will keep asserting their right to use their languages, say Candace Galla and Madoka Hammine

Innovation policy ‘should focus on talent as much as spin-outs’

Spending money on ‘hugely expensive Americans’ not a good use of limited resources when talent development structures at risk, warns report author

South Africa can’t just skill students ‘for the sake of it’

Government targets ‘resuscitation’ of technical institutions and closer private sector ties as youth unemployment soars

Every place with more than 80,000 people ‘needs a university’

Future growth of UK higher education should not just expand graduate numbers but be tied to regional economic strategies, argues new book

Inner skills are the missing link when it comes to SDG progress

University staff are well positioned to lead by example as they engage with global challenges, say María Florencia Amigó, Sarah Lisle and Ruby Campbell

Durham University exam errors blamed on restructuring ‘chaos’

Students given wrong question and others left without supporting documents, but institution denies impact of voluntary severance programme was to blame

Competition law and costs ‘holding back mergers’, says UUK

Difficult to get new models of collaboration off the ground without ‘transformation funding’, finds efficiencies review