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Lack of clarity over how brief held by Jacqui Smith will be carved up risks delaying crucial policy interventions, critics fear

Union threatens ‘coordinated’ strikes to cause ‘maximum disruption’ at UK universities

Some ‘scholarships’ advertised by UK universities contingent on grades or ‘ambassadorial duties’, with others applied automatically to all

The three-month pause to re-examine the assessment of ‘people, culture and environment’ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan

Falling life expectancy calls for a rethink of when university staff qualify for benefits, letter to Treasury says

Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham

Keir Starmer reshuffles Cabinet after Angela Rayner resignation, with big implications for higher education

Research England to use REF pause to consider whether institutions must meet baseline performance measures as a condition of receiving funds

Union’s new policy mandating three office days a week resisted by some staff, who are refusing to come in at all

Using REF to tackle research culture risks making it too ‘bureaucratic and burdensome’, university leaders warn as Vallance rethinks changes to weightings

Longest-serving education minister explains why he ignored ‘abstract’ and ‘ideological’ academic research in fight to improve school performance

Intervention by sector leader comes amid concern about growth in master’s by research degrees following dependants ban for other courses