From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD...
In an era of complex challenges, single authorship is no longer the only marker of significant contributions, say Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Roger Norum and Joanna Rostek
University accused of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to recent rulings, amid fears of more ‘massive fines’
Top universities still in robust financial health in year of visa hikes and last-minute withdrawal of proposed foreign enrolment caps
Early career researchers from non-EU countries describe major hurdles to Swedish residency under recent migration law changes
Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the £9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report
Universities set to lose millions in income if government goes ahead with plan to take a cut of overseas earnings, and are unlikely to see much benefit from levy spending, critics say
We cannot lose sight of what makes the US vibrant: that we all benefit when everyone has the chance to thrive, says Marybeth Gasman
Bentley-driving vice-chancellor George Holmes put on leave after PwC investigation into university payments
Growing cooperation between institutions to address area’s skills needs a ‘blueprint for rest of UK’, politicians say
Former Universities UK chief takes over higher education super-agency to oversee ‘next phase of development’
Despite widespread misgivings about productivity gains, digital transformations are considered a safer bet than campus investment, survey suggests
Renewed interest in expanding abroad could prove lucrative but is not immune to scrutiny from the White House, scholars say