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Redundancies blamed on ‘unprecedented financial challenges’ including ‘rising costs, flat or declining income and uncertainty in student recruitment’

Grief ‘compounded by a lack of transparency’, parents tell two-year investigation into student deaths at UK universities

Increased staff and other operating costs blamed for â€˜significant deterioration’, with spending on restructuring ballooning

Surprise reduction in funding for specialist provision will spark ‘brand new financial crisis brewed entirely in Whitehall’, critics warn

Hidden environmental impact of roll-out of AI bots and assistants not well understood, experts warn, with much of it outsourced to big technology companies

Vocabulary driven by policymakers doesn’t work for sector where outputs are not always measurable, conference hears

Fears over cuts to university-based frontier science eased by European Commission president’s speech confirming independence of Framework Programme 10

Lowest offer since the pandemic reflects ‘severity of the financial pressures’ facing institutions, says employer body

Staff want additional funding allocated by the Welsh government to be used to remove threat of compulsory redundancies

Thousands set to miss out on fund set up by UK government to support companies in traversing the ‘Valley of Death’ between research and commercialisation, universities fear

Doubling the length of time required for indefinite leave to remain in the UK will impose a considerable ‘financial and emotional toll’ on international researchers, warn experts

Isolated domains of academic excellence must transform into dynamic enterprises integrated with local industry and community, says Aleks Subic