The TACTICS countries: potential and the polity
In the TACTICS nations, just as in the UK and the US, universities and democracy depend on each other

In the TACTICS nations, just as in the UK and the US, universities and democracy depend on each other

John Morgan looks at signals of Home Office backtracking

Funding conference attendance out of your own pocket? Don't worry – there are ways to make back the cash through other academic activities. Catherine Fletcher explains.

Pam Tatlow on the recent parliamentary debate of the Higher Education Bill

Chancellor's Autumn Statement confirms extra £2 billion a year for R&D will be distributed by research funding agencies

A more international approach will boost higher education in the region, write Marco Zago and Raul Machado-Neto

Author of paper says institutions have been ‘slow’ in the past to provide the appropriate support

‘Irreversible’ damage to UK science from a hard Brexit will eclipse any harm caused in the US by a Trump presidency, says new Nobel laureate

A vast market provides opportunities for institutions worried about future outside EU, says head of online platform operating on continent

Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of the University Alliance, has hopes and fears ahead of Philip Hammond's speech

Fictional professors from film, TV and literature have been reported to new watchlist of 'anti-American' academics

Education ministry is analysing a report into the quality of higher education and may close down substandard institutions

Data from ߣߣÊÓƵ reveal sharp spike in number of US prospective students and academics interested in moving north of the border