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Influential body to assess effectiveness of routes into country for top talent, as latest figures show numbers have not increased despite government attention

Separate rules on pay and promotions, opaque evaluations and cultural barriers jar with country’s drive to internationalise universities, say scholars

Government renews drive to attract international academics with more recruits coming to UK under Global Talent Fund

‘Trump effect’ drives surge in US HE workers looking to move abroad, with China, Australia and Ireland also big beneficiaries

Syrian scholar stopped from seeing dying father among those affected by long waits for clearance, says MP Wendy Chamberlain

Federal government says it is ‘doubling down on science’ with one of the largest recruitment programmes of its kind in the world

Two of the first beneficiaries of £54 million Global Talent Fund discuss how US funding uncertainties – as well as desire for home comforts – influenced their decision to move

Complete shutdown in access since invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian studies, say historians finding ways to keep discipline going

UK told to strengthen and protect its visa offer to international scientists if it wants to achieve ambition of becoming Europe’s leading life sciences economy

Other recent departures from Trump’s America include expert on anti-fascism who fled to Spain after receiving death threats

Removing fees not enough to make system accessible to talented would-be applicants, says research group

Political issues motivate Turkish PhD students to move abroad but sociocultural and professional anxieties stop them from returning, study finds

Long-awaited ‘single market’ for research won’t happen based on voluntary commitments alone, sector leaders say

Universities and institutes to receive funding to pay to relocate 60 to 80 researchers, with five of 12 winners hailing from Greater South East region