Students need greater protection if university goes bust – OIA
Ombudsman for English and Welsh higher education says options include support fund, insurance scheme or change in legislation, as it announces record haul of complaints

Ombudsman for English and Welsh higher education says options include support fund, insurance scheme or change in legislation, as it announces record haul of complaints

Ucas data confirms big falls in recruitment at some post-92 universities as older institutions took what applicants there were on domestic and international front

Universities under political pressure to row back on support for minorities need a rallying point, say Manuel Barcia and Effie Kesidou

Island may follow likes of UK in mandating three-year residency before qualifying for domestic fee regime

Australian universities and colleges face a ‘difficult’ election but few further rule changes, analyst predicts

‘Anti-woke’ James Tooley back in charge at private institution as ‘serious allegations’ dismissed

Government ‘cherry-picked’ ideas with commercial application, despite reviewer warnings against ‘naive’ expectations of windfall profits, scientists say

Successful pharmaceutical and biotech firms linked to the Medical Research Council have landed at least £6 billion in investment since 2008, and more before then, study finds

Regulators vow to push ahead with ‘in-year’ submissions despite damning report on project’s impact on workloads

Foreign universities entering increasingly saturated market

India-based periodical disciplined by bibliographic group Crossref after sleuths claimed ‘sneaked references’ had been injected into metadata

Educational interventions are like making a soufflé that may or may not rise, say Billy Wong and Lydia Fletcher

Employees at Study Group-run centre on University of Sheffield campus to walk out after 36 staff put at risk of redundancy

University to increase staff-student ratios, merge schools and close programmes to ensure it remains ‘viable’