Politics

Mariya Gabriel’s resignation splits her education and research briefs just as officials are shaping the successor to Horizon Europe and other flagship programmes

Saint Anselm College says event was part of democratic process but faced condemnation, given former president’s track-record of spreading misinformation

While new prime minister has nominated science and skills as budget priorities, sector fears any investment will fall short of inflation

As voting finishes in divisive poll, scholars say two decades of government under Erdoğan has left universities in a perilous state

Poll will provide first constituency-by-constituency breakdown of how voters see issue of higher education funding

UGC move meant to make higher education less English-centric ‘could backfire’ without more support for institutions, academics say

Government crackdown on student ‘poaching’ could curb legitimate university activities and hit enrolments, experts warn

Florida’s partisan attack on New College bolsters iconoclastic Massachusetts campus as it rebuilds from near closure

Sector looks to Universities Accord to consummate budget’s ‘down payment’

Party expected to stop short of committing to new higher education funding policy pre-election

Trudeau administration hardens line on research ties to China, as academics report unsolicited approaches from intelligence agency

Halving board members’ terms to allow influx of security experts risks ‘dangerous’ infringement on university autonomy, sector warns

Six legal cases lodged in bid to release billions of euros of funding, locked away because of threats to university autonomy

Former University College Cork president Michael Murphy reflects on pandemic, Ukraine and Brussels experience as he prepares to step down from top of representative body

Failure to restore power-sharing means funding issues leading to brain drain are not being resolved, warns Queen’s University Belfast v-c

Australian universities push responsibility for casualisation onto Canberra’s funding arrangements

Labour leader also says £9,250 fee status quo in England is ‘unfair’

Biden signalled new approach to scientific engagement with Asian superpower, but scholars say Trump’s China Initiative is continuing under new guises

In ongoing awakening, several large universities act on evidence that marginalised students fare better with greater feelings of community

Interest in India growing as Washington-Beijing tensions show no indication of waning, scholars say

New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates

Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary

Legislation aiming to eradicate ‘cancel culture’ will be used across political spectrum, not only by Conservatives, former minister predicts

Aiming to deny routine extension of federal debt limit, House conservatives hope to force lower Pell grant upon millions of borrowers

Parental income should not influence eligibility for living allowances, Australian academics argue

New leadership of Scottish government told to make sustainable higher education funding a priority after years of stagnation

Fears over reputation and secrecy deal major setback to online US university's once-promising bid for traditional higher ed partner

Colleges and universities are providing students more in tuition breaks than they collect, in sign of growing budgetary strains

Key Trump adviser warns party backers about the dangers they now face from easier registration and voting processes on campuses

With nation’s top judicial body expected to outlaw efforts to consider race in admissions, student essays held out as alternative means of preserving equity

With the country’s schools often still divided along religious lines, its universities have helped bring people together, says academic

Outgoing MP takes on role during crucial period for UK science and research

Governance strategy by Trump-backing Republican governor held up by national group of university trustees as model to be emulated

Scholarships announced at QUB conference as Hillary and Bill Clinton visit to mark 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Once built, aerospace institute on southern island of Hainan will become first solo campus run by Russian institution inside Asian superpower

State Senate has already passed one of three bills that would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who “attempt to compel” certain beliefs, and ban what the legislation defines as diversity, equity and inclusion programming

Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of Ron DeSantis

Vice-chancellor hails US President's speech as giving the institution ‘fantastic prominence’ worldwide

Further security service-directed restrictions could deal ‘serious blow’ to West’s China studies and isolate Chinese academics

In ongoing retreat from February order that alarmed higher education, Biden officials cancel third-party restrictions

Unions representing full-time and adjunct faculty walk out at New Jersey’s three-campus 67,000-student system

Minister drafting new ‘knowledge security’ screening procedure as MP and former intelligence staffer calls universities ‘inconsistent’

University of Pennsylvania’s pulling of legacy aid seen as sign of embarrassment and potential harbinger of change across US elite

Academics warn that move to ‘stifle’ youth political involvement betrays ‘insecurity’ by ruling party

Summary of ‘Pioneer’ plan suggests how unspent Horizon contribution could be used if UK does not join EU programme

Beijing’s censorship of 2018 gene-edited babies case has prevented ‘crucial’ research ethics dialogue, says scholar

Ministry decision to allow universities to deny services to women without headscarves ‘will only reinforce people’s anger’, says scholar

Montana-based founder of Networked University idea eyes new way to aid students, share resources and, perhaps, bridge societal divides

Fayneese Miller, university’s first black president, to retire after months of battling over propriety of Muhammad painting in art class

Scientific community counts nation’s economic losses from two decades of underinvestment but can’t budge Trudeau government

Many learners reluctant to attend public institutions as this may ‘legitimise regime’, says researcher

Minister with a doctorate Mats Persson also tells THE he wants Sweden to attract family-minded international researchers

Academic council says safety of teachers and students a top concern after Kremlin puts institution on blacklist

Export-strength research and employer demand make a case for optimism in liberal arts subjects, Hepi report finds

When Purdue biologist David Sanders ran for election to Indiana’s senate last autumn, he assumed a commitment to evidence and personal engagement would give him traction. But while his pitch was well received on doorsteps, the system’s dark arts fended him away from the legislature’s threshold

Most presidents don’t get fired, and those who do typically go on to rewarding new positions, says Holden Thorp

Vivienne Stern tells Lords inquiry that trust would increase if regulator was more resistant to political direction

Trailblazing physicist Donna Strickland hopes new institute will tackle waning public trust in science

As fierce partisanship silences US academics, a fired leader gets an even bigger job that rewards his resistance

Administrators take ‘very clever’ strategy to ‘divide’ students by disciplining two of them harshly while letting others go, scholar says