Consider exempting STEM students from dependants ban, UK told
Peers urge rethink as they brand UK’s high visa and healthcare costs ‘act of national self-harm’
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IITs and expanding medical training prioritised in Indian budget
Tax-cutting budget sees modest increases for higher education as India’s growth expected to slow
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Plan S dumps journal cost comparison tool after publisher boycott
Lack of cooperation from publishers blamed for failure of transparency service that many hoped could drive down prices
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‘Positive signals’ for UK international recruitment in September
Early data from UniQuest shows a 38 per cent increase in firm acceptances for autumn intake
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Lecturers fear impact of DeepSeek ‘censorship’ on students’ work
Rapidly growing AI tool brushes off questions about Tiananmen Square and spouts Communist Party line on sensitive topics like Taiwan
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Serbia protests ‘about protecting present and future’, students say
Prompted by deadly train station collapse, thousands of students are calling for government accountability
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Striking over pay amid the UK’s financial crisis is misguided at best
The work of lobbying policymakers to make HE a higher priority is undermined by the endless pantomime of UCU’s internal politics, says Dyfrig Jones
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It took a collapse on a bus to show me how wrong our work-life balance is
Can it be our responsibility as employees to better prioritise our well-being when the workload imposed on us goes so far beyond what can be done in a 35-hour week, asks Joan Taylor
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French scholars decry ‘appalling’ cuts to ‘starving’ universities
Draft 2025 budget could be devastating for research, universities and students, academics warn
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Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ executive orders wreak havoc on science
From cancelled guest lectures to disrupted clinical trials, the damage to US science caused by a grant approval freeze is mounting, but further problems lie ahead
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University of Dundee staff vote to strike amid financial crisis
Union says that managers of stricken institution must “think again about cutting jobs and the use of compulsory redundancies”
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Highly paid vice-chancellors ‘lead dissatisfied universities’
Earnings gap between university bosses and ordinary workers has quintupled since ߣߣƵ stopped regulating vice-chancellors’ salaries, analysis finds
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DeepSeek harnesses links with Chinese universities in talent war
Tech platform chief is proponent of locally grown AI talent, as Asian superpower focuses on industry-academia collaboration
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Early Elsevier exits set tone for UK publishing costs showdown
Librarians and negotiators insist embattled sector’s finances and technological innovations will help to achieve long-sought reductions in publisher costs
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Cost-cutting Newcastle posts £5 million underlying deficit
Institution has come under fire for looking to shed around 300 jobs