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Cambridge, Queen’s University Belfast and Leicester record shortfalls for the second year in a row as latest accounts highlight sector-wide financial challenges

Universities can decide on publishing deals after terms agreed with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis

Classes to be held at iconic venue on non-matchdays as footballers’ institution seeks to counter international student shortfall

University leaders considering internal recommendation to cease veterinary education after regulators extended conditional accreditation of degrees

White House plans to launch new ‘state-of-the-art’ foreign funding reporting portal expected to increase scrutiny of universities

Analysis shows that one provider has increased its number of subcontracted students by 500 per cent 

Rollback of decoupling researchers from their work questioned despite policy U-turn on books

Chief executive becomes latest to depart English regulator after nearly four years in charge

Funding must be part of the conversation, crossbench senators warn, as final report of ߣߣÊÓƵn governance inquiry published

Efforts to ensure student voices are heard on university boards often ‘tokenistic’, with ‘invisible barriers’ placed on participation

Decision to row back reforms demonstrates difficulties of using process to engineer social change, critics say, with little clarity over how newly revised ‘people’ section will work

Charging interest on loans already repaid would be illegal in other sectors, senator highlights

Researchers sent emails to authors of recently published papers to test how much prestige matters in access to academic resources

Edward Peck insinuates risks of breaching rules when collaborating across sector aren’t as high as widely perceived

Admissions chief fears rising number of commuter students could limit access to courses for those from poorest backgrounds

Minister’s assertion that universities can keep trading during liquidation process ‘markedly’ at odds with other experts’ views, committee chair says

Nuclear physicist departs next spring having set up first branch campus in India

Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit

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

Institutions that charge moderate fees and can’t pass costs on to students likely to be greatest victims of new tax, while some believe policy will help weed out lower-quality players

Epilepsy pioneer vows to target ‘negative view’ of discovery science and ‘mindset’ of expecting the outcomes in advance

Lack of career rewards for impact and institutional focus on publication metrics highlighted in Sage survey

Fair admissions and effective management should cover all areas of university operations, education minister tells v-cs in letter

Success in securing ‘consolidator’ awards continues Britain’s resurgence since rejoining Horizon research initiative

Universities face estimated costs of £166.8 million in loss and damage from effects of changing climate, landmark study concludes

Holyrood politicians must look at size and shape of tertiary sector, and consider closer research ties with rest of UK, says Anton Muscatelli

New subsidiaries and mergers expected after ministers insist on OfS registration for any institution teaching more than 300 students

Lottery-first approach can increase applications and success rate of ‘structurally disadvantaged’ researchers, study finds

First major foray abroad for one of ߣߣÊÓƵ’s top-ranked universities since Singaporean venture closed after just a semester

Institutions say impact of recruitment changes behind difficult financial picture but predict stronger numbers in future

Research into impact of higher education policy changes hard to find and not always utilised by politicians, report finds

Fears that expansion of master’s research courses to circumvent dependants ban could prompt more restrictions