Post-92s could quit TPS pension scheme over ‘unfair’ cost hikes
April’s rise in employers’ contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme could leave modern universities unable to compete, leaders say
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International student policy at stake in UK Cabinet reshuffle
James Cleverly becomes home secretary as former prime minister David Cameron replaces him as foreign secretary
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US international student recruitment rebound slows
Early figures indicate new enrolments of international students have increased by 2 per cent in 2023-24
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Graduate-level jobs ‘increasingly concentrated in London’
Dominant role of UK capital in highly skilled employment means university leavers elsewhere may find it harder to fully capitalise on their degrees, says IFS
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Unpredictable business school enrolment poses threat to finances
Changes to visas and foundation years likely to hit income, deans fear, with big repercussions for parent universities
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Universities’ dwindling budgets threaten support for enterprise
Funding emerges as biggest challenge to helping staff and students set up businesses, as community outreach work ‘nosedives’
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Trump’s American Academy: pure politics, or onto something?
Republican front runner lifts from DeSantis playbook in idea for free online alternative to ‘woke’ universities, connecting to concerns on endowments and access
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Is the Gulf the new heart of academia in the Middle East?
Universities in the Gulf are increasingly attracting scholars and staff from across the Arab region and beyond. What are the main pull factors? And how is this shifting the knowledge centres of the...
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Teaching modern languages without culture will harm global relations
Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett
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London mayoralty frontrunners clash on international students
Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’
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‘Anti-Western’ recruitment ‘could turn Chinese off foreign study’
Locals with overseas qualifications are no longer welcome in China’s state-owned enterprises, conference hears
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With right techniques, low reproducibility ‘not inevitable’
Combining a series of methods for boosting research reproducibility found to produce huge gains in overall success
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Reshaped Hong Kong university council ‘brings political control’
Move is latest in sector-wide process of ‘neutering Hong Kong universities’ by giving legislators say over their decisions, says academic
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Voters divided on Sunak’s crackdown on ‘rip-off degrees’
Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative
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Idaho retreats from ban on discussing abortion in classrooms
State disavows its own idea that professors can’t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit