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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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 ߣߣÊÓƵ 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
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CNRS researchers want boss to quit over two-tier ¡®Keylabs¡¯ plan
Ten thousand back call for Antoine Petit to resign as president of French state research organisation
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UK universities spend more than ?200 million on severance pay
THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year
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How bad has Brexit been for UK universities?
Five years on since the UK officially left the European Union, Patrick Jack examines whether the consequences for universities have been as drastic as many feared at the time
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Does the glut of retractions mean science is in crisis? Hardly
All we are seeing is a?necessary course correction to counter the infiltration of bad actors, say?Leslie McIntosh,?Ren¨¦ Aquarius and?Dorothy Bishop
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Top researchers in India, China more likely to have retractions
Highly cited scholars in medicine and life sciences also have papers pulled more often, says Stanford analysis
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Global HE chains¡¯ English plans ¡®thwarted by OfS register pause¡¯
Former universities minister claims successful providers based overseas keen to invest in sector but have so far been left frustrated
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Record rise in UKRI PhD stipend hailed as ¡®major win¡¯
Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage