Radical rethink of UK’s excellence frameworks is needed
Merging metrics for the REF, KEF and TEF would free up time for academics to become researchers once again, says Robert MacIntosh

Merging metrics for the REF, KEF and TEF would free up time for academics to become researchers once again, says Robert MacIntosh

With overseas enrolments hitting the buffers during the pandemic, debate rages over whether higher education’s excessive reliance on this income stream is self-inflicted – and how universities can...

Allocation of £422 million last year cut to £125 million this year

International student mobility was the rock on which universities built their empire. With Covid turning prior certainties into unknowns, what now?

Funder says it is unlikely to be able to support ‘majority’ of awards beyond July, and will be unable to approve new applications

Anna McKie talks to three experts about the benefits of embedding the concept of students co-creating their own learning

Different university groupings should have strong, distinctive capabilities that address specific markets, says John H. Howard

It is unclear what Theresa May’s policy will mean in practice, but it could draw universities into the heart of economic planning

Unions continue to resist idea of expanding face-to-face tuition further this year

Universities UK and Wellcome Trust express mounting fears about where funding to join European Union research programme will come from

Boris Johnson must rapidly step in after Treasury puts block on extra funding to cover Horizon Europe costs, sector figures warn

Advanced Research and Invention Agency bill confirms plan to place agency beyond reach of Freedom of Information Act

UK scientific heavyweights unite to condemn massive cuts to overseas research and urge rethink on potential UKRI reductions

Universities UK and Russell Group push for all students to return from 12Â April amid concern that it could be pushed back to mid-May

International advisory panel heads condemn ‘inexcusable’ handling of cuts to research supported by foreign aid