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Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms

Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says

Professor leading Migration Advisory Committee warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered

Commission’s move following Percy affair provoking internal controversy, source claims

Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector

Science secretary concedes she could have written to agency ‘in confidence’ rather than tweeting concerns about Israel-Gaza views among EDI group

Amendments threaten jail term of up to five years without defining ‘reasonable cause’ exemption

Plans to introduce 20 per cent ‘baseline’ for research time will harm university’s standing in academia and beyond, warns critic

Sinn Féin proposes bill in Irish Dáil that would make it an offence for landlords to seek sex in exchange for rental housing

Funder keen to reconvene advisory group, but professor says he wants reassurance that lessons have been learned from controversial investigation

Jisc review finds UK ahead of global average on open access, but questions whether purportedly temporary measures are proving effective at driving change

Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union