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

No institution will be able to make it alone amid the pandemic-induced tumult, so let’s make shared values the antidote to the crisis, says Ferruccio Resta

University expresses concerns about ‘untrue statements’ but UCU remains in dark over what caused problem

Former universities minister says there is a danger reforms will focus too narrowly on colleges

Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators

Ministers promise innovative funding models for Advanced Research and Invention Agency following debate on relationship with umbrella body

Experts voice caution on prospect of quick bounceback in UK overseas recruitment post-Covid, highlighting issues around affordability and changing competitive landscape

Organisation charged with leading probe says term has no ‘scientific reality’ and is being used to shut down academic discussion of race and colonialism

The great loss is the more subtle stuff, such as arching an eyebrow at a pal when Professor X starts droning on, says Athene Donald

After her first book, The Entrepreneurial State, catapulted her into the academic stratosphere, the UCL economist has paused her audiences with senior politicians to write a follow-up that uses the Apollo moonshot as a model for a mission-based approach to social challenges

Despite drop in interest from European Union, overall applications to UK universities by January deadline rose this year

Foreign investment or buyout touted as potential route out of financial woe for institutions, while others see ‘multi-university groups’ as more viable