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UCU declares â€˜no confidence’ in Lincoln management while redundancy plans prompt fresh dispute in north east

Finance minister backs task force’s call for ‘new breakthrough innovation entity’ to work with German equivalent

Interim leader drops plans to lose 150 jobs amid reports that announcement of process ‘blindsided’ university’s council

Post-Brexit programme established by Boris Johnson’s government shuttered after supporting 200,000 participants

Gaps in understanding between universities and their external partners leave students in a ‘vulnerable position’, report finds

Rampant technology considered both essential knowledge and an employability threat, survey finds

Experts warn of increasing threat to systems used by universities at crunch points in the academic year after hundreds of thousands of student records compromised

Faster rail services between major UK research hubs and stronger incentives to work together could deliver innovation benefits, says report

Charity says access agenda has stalled, as less than one in five disadvantaged white British pupils progress into university

DfE reportedly considering introducing minimum entry standard, potentially blocking tens of thousands of applicants from accessing student finance

New English quality framework over-reliant on data to measure student experience, critics fear

University declines to answer questions from staff or the media, with restructure plans affecting hundreds of jobs continuing despite leadership vacuum

Rapid turnaround of grants and early termination of misfiring projects show how funders can adapt processes to support work in new fields, says executive at Germany’s disruptive research funder

StudySmarter warned over job listings set up to capture contact information

Only 8 per cent of early career physicists would advise others to pursue career in UK research after downturn in postdoc funding, survey finds

University says further savings needed to ‘survive’ but Màiri McAllan urges pause to ‘interrogate the evidence’

Amid concern over graduate outcomes and the declining value of a degree, one UK higher education provider that boasts a practically perfect employability record is setting its sights on official recognition – and disproving those who might question whether its students need to be at university at all

The likelihood of investigation and the severity of punishment have most influence on whether experienced academics take a chance on dodgy research

More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone

Maverick Australian politicians vow to deport dropouts and slash enrolments, as erstwhile fringe party claims the ascendancy

Rising cost of tuition more about plugging government deficit than helping fund higher education, say rectors

University to keep employing academics directly after predictions that contribution rates to Teachers’ Pension Scheme will come down

Hitherto unpublished Australian data unpacks the institutions and disciplines where freedom of expression is particularly ‘constrained’

Former education secretary says mergers the solution for institutions in financial crisis as he calls for more ‘ambition’ in higher education

Edinburgh extends pay deductions to those who refuse to cover for colleagues taking part in industrial action

Study finds detectors struggle to accurately identify amount of AI content when papers have been partially human written

University of Lancashire vice-chancellor and former chief executive of Advance HE also recognised in annual list

University groups say plans to reduce funding for flagship research programme an â€˜astonishing act of political incoherence’

Chinese tuition fees contribute 35 per cent of revenue for leading Australian universities, as figures reveal ‘structural gap’ in funding

Latest effort to lure leading scholars to Europe comes as concerns grow over political oversight of research in the US

New leader of research-intensive grouping says ‘challenging conversations’ needed but critics urge united front against political attacks

School-leavers across the UK to be offered two-dose vaccination from July onwards

Anonymity of social media posts highlights the subjects that doctoral candidates feel unable to discuss publicly, researchers say

Private provider temporarily blocked from international recruitment amid UKVI probe as seven universities face visa action plans

Skills minister says regulator could have handled Sussex investigation better but ‘lessons have been identified’

Hundreds of thousands of email addresses understood to be affected in hack claimed by notorious ShinyHunters group

Initiative to create more than 800 PhDs and involve several leading universities but academics concerned about country neglecting blue-sky research

Regulator scraps overall ratings after consultation on revamped exercise but commits to plans to limit growth at bronze providers

Five institutions collaborate with regional mayor to support businesses built on university research

Steep rise in UK students’ happiness with programmes despite job cuts, fee rises and negativity over student loans

Nearly 100,000 tests incorrectly marked due to issues with automated system

Labour politicians defend student finance system, including retrospective changes, as they suggest uplifting higher education funding is not a priority

Anand Menon criticises ‘absurdities’ of government policy, pointing to contradictions in UK’s efforts to rejoin flagship exchange scheme

Sector’s absence from Starmer’s trip to Beijing and Shanghai ‘wasn’t for lack of trying’, says Birmingham vice-chancellor

‘Science investment plan’ outlines cuts to ‘priority’ areas after government reveals successor to Performance-Based Research Fund

Sudden departure revealed days after financially ‘strong’ university opened consultations over 140 proposed job losses

Coming reduction in funding for high-cost subjects and access programmes ‘extraordinarily frustrating’, says Universities UK leader

Updates to UK counter-terror monitoring scheme incoming despite concern Prevent not built to deal with growing problem of extreme right-wing views

New Haven leader sees country as ‘biggest coming story in global higher education’ despite nervousness around regulation and war impact

University chancellor says both academic freedom and legitimate protest must be upheld on campus

Both sides of politics eroding opportunities to meet neighbours’ needs and solve skill shortages back home, according to former Liberal power broker

Association all but assured, insiders say, as government concludes treaty negotiations

Five-year tuition fee freeze, ban on franchising and introduction of new national entry test among other recommendations from Policy Exchange

Head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods

UK can become ‘most attractive place in the world’ to invest in innovative companies, say v-cs

‘Time is right’ to lower tuition fees for some accelerated degrees, says UK’s oldest private institution

Richard Scolyer dies aged 59 after undergoing world-first treatment for his brain tumour

With thousands dying in armed conflicts across the world, peace studies may hold valuable insights on ending war. But suspicions over the discipline’s innovative theories mean its voice has not always been heard, writes Jack Grove

Proposed regulatory conditions are â€˜too broad’, lack clear guidance and will increase burden on institutions, say sector groups

Academics welcome coalition’s commitment to expanding STEM places, but warn hard-hit humanities subjects have been ‘hardly’ mentioned